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WordPress Plugin Age Verification v0.4 - Open Redirect
Open redirect vulnerability in age-verification.php in the Age Verification plugin 0.4 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the redirectto parameter. id: CVE-2012-6499 info: name: WordPress Plugin Age...
Online Safety Regulation Increases Privacy Risk: Evidence from the UK Online Safety Act
Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, particularly those affecting children. However, access restrictions can alter user behaviour and introduce new privacy and security risks. The UK Online Safety Act OSA, passed in October 2023, illustrates...
TikTok, YouTube, and Roblox face scrutiny, but age gates won’t fix child safety
A damaging new report from Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, has delivered a stark verdict: TikTok and YouTube's content feeds are "not safe enough" for children. This isn't just another regulatory slap on the wrist. Ofcom is putting out a wake-up call for anyone working in cybersecurity,...
Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks
Some AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache...
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure...
Age Verification in the Web -- Holy Grail to Control Access to Restricted Content
Age verification before accessing restricted content is critical to protecting minors from exposure to harmful material such as pornography, gambling, violence, hateful speech, and substance purchases like alcohol and tobacco. Currently, the absence of reliable age-checking mechanisms allows...
Roblox clamps down on chats and age checks as legal pressure builds
Roblox has long faced criticism over child safety on its platform. Now it has started settling with state attorneys over the issue, and the total is climbing fast. On April 21, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $12.2 million settlement with the child-focused online gaming...
EUVD-2026-22824
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more...
Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here
Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start blocking access by minors...
CVE-2026-2834
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
CVE-2026-2834
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
CVE-2026-2834 Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust <= 3.32.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'description' Parameter
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
CVE-2026-2834 Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust <= 3.32.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'description' Parameter
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
WordPress plugin Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust 安全漏洞
WordPress and WordPress plugins are both products of the WordPress Foundation. WordPress is a blog platform developed using the PHP language. This platform allows for the creation of personal blog websites on servers based on PHP and MySQL. A WordPress plugin is an application extension. The...
PT-2026-32999
The Age Verification & Identity Verification by Token of Trust plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘description’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...
Blocking children from social media is a badly executed good idea
While we can probably all agree that there is more than enough proof that social media is bad for the mental health of our children, the methods we are trying to block or ban them seem to do more harm than good. Across the world, lawmakers are tripping over each other to be seen “doing something”...
Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy
The UK’s online safety and privacy regulators are targeting companies that violate new age verification laws at both ends : Porn sites that did not keep children out, and mainstream platforms that profited from children coming in. On February 23, media regulator Ofcom fined porn operators that...
Roblox gives predators “powerful tools” to target children, says LA County
Los Angeles County has sued online gaming company Roblox, adding to a series of suits that accuse the virtual worlds platform of misleading parents into thinking it's safe while leaving children exposed to predators and sexually explicit content. The February 19 filing makes LA County the first...
Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say
Researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification checks say they discovered an exposed frontend belonging to Persona, the identity-verification vendor used by Discord. It revealed a far more expansive surveillance and financial intelligence stack than a simple “teen safety” tool. A short whil...