Malvertising Campaign Targets Brazil's PIX Payment System with GoPIX Malware

The popularity of Brazil's PIX instant payment system has made it a lucrative target for threat actors looking to generate illicit profits using a new malware called GoPIX. Kaspersky, which has been tracking the active campaign since December 2022, said the attacks are pulled off using malicious...

Hong Kong residents targeted in malvertising campaigns for WhatsApp, Telegram

Malvertising is a powerful malware or scam delivery mechanism that makes it easy to target specific geographies or even users. A recent article from the South China Morning Post discussed an increase in malicious webpages for the popular WhatsApp communication tool, driven via malicious Google ad...

Stealer for PIX payment system, new Lumar stealer and Rhysida ransomware

Introduction As a cybersecurity company, Kaspersky is constantly dealing with known and brand-new malware samples. As part of our crimeware reporting service, we provide our customers with technical reports on the evolution of existing crimeware families, as well as newly emerging ones. In this...

WordPress WhatsApp Share Button Plugin <= 1.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software WhatsApp Share Button Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.0.1 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2023-5668 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 6.4 Developer Claim ownership PSID c35696dd32a5 Credits István Márton Requir...

The 23andMe User Data Leak May Be Far Worse Than Believed

Plus: IT workers secretly funnel money to North Korea, a court in the US upholds keyword search warrants, and WhatsApp gets a passwordless upgrade on Android...

CVE-2023-5668

The WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'whatsapp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2023-5668

The WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'whatsapp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2023-5668 WhatsApp Share Button <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

The WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'whatsapp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2023-5668 WhatsApp Share Button <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

The WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'whatsapp' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2023-5668

CVE-2023-5668 affects the WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress (versions

WordPress Plugin WhatsApp Share Button Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. WordPress is a blogging platform developed in the PHP language that supports personal blogs on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application...

WhatsApp Share Button <= 1.0.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin...

PT-2023-32251 · WordPress · Whatsapp Share Button

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WhatsApp Share Button plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'whatsapp' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping ...

WhatsApp Competitive Conditions Issue Vulnerability

WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from the American company WhatsApp that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the software to send text, images, etc. A security vulnerability exists in WhatsApp that stems...

WhatsApp Competitive Conditions Issue Vulnerability

WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from the American company WhatsApp that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the software to transmit text, images, etc. WhatsApp suffers from a security vulnerability tha...

New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware

The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023. "The targeting took place...

European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign

Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. "The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed with a...

CERT-UA Uncovers Gamaredon's Rapid Data Exfiltration Tactics Following Initial Compromise

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed conducting data exfiltration activities within an hour of the initial compromise. "As a vector of primary compromise, for the most part, emails and messages in messengers Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal are used, in most cases, using...

Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter has Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in HTML output of chats.

Impact A Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability was found in the HTML output of chats. XSS is intended to be mitigated by Jinja's escape function. However, autoescape=True was missing when setting the environment. Although the actual impact is low, considering the HTML file is being viewed offlin...

PT-2023-32997 · Unknown · Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter versions prior to 0.9.5 Description: A Cross-Site Scripting XSS issue was discovered in the HTML output of chats, due to the absence of autoescape=True when setting the environment, which is intended to be mitigated by...