WordPress Companion Auto Update plugin <=2.9.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities

WordPress Companion Auto Update plugin Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF and Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. The CSRF occurs when you try to change the plugin’s settings. There's no nonce to validate the request. The XSS vulnerability appears for "Email address" input field, the output is n...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation

Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1. Description DCCService.exe is running on autostart as...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1. Description DCCService.exe is running on autostart as...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1...

PloitKit - The Hacker's ToolBox

PloitKit is a Python based GUI tool designed as one-stop for all other softwares. I was facing these kinds of problem, when I need to switch to different system, or I lost my pen-drive. I have to go to google, and search every tool and download every tool and so on. So I decided to create a tool,...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution

During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1 User-Interaction: Reboot required Impact: Remote Code...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1...

CVE-2017-6445

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...

Design/Logic Flaw

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...

CVE-2017-6445

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...

CVE-2017-6445

OpenELEC has a CVE-2017-6445 issue affecting the auto-update feature in OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4. The update process uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates, enabling a man-in-the-middle attacker to tamper with update packages and gain root access remotely. The description a...

CVE-2017-6445

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...

Brave Software: No user confirmation when an auto-updated extension gets more permissions

Summary: In Chrome, when extensions are auto-updated, if the permissions change, the extension is preventatively disabled and the user has to confirm they wish to re-enable it with the additional permissions. While it appears Brave has a functioning Extension auto-updater e.g. for the PDF...

Microsoft Auto Updater for Mac Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Office is a suite of office software based on the Windows operating system developed by Microsoft. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Auto Update MAU application for Mac that fails to properly validate updates before execution. The vulnerability can be...

Via WordPress Auto Update feature disposable invasion Internet 2 7%site-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, we are still constantly trying to find the WordPress community in a third-party plug-ins and themes in the presence of security vulnerabilities. During the study, we are also on WordPress core, and the associated wordpress. org system were detected. In the beginning of the year, we...

WordPress auto-update mechanism of the serious vulnerability: the global ultra-1/4 site can be hacker in one fell swoop rout-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Wordfence recently disclosed an impact of a large range of security issues, a large number of WordPress sites are affected. This exploit is WordPress Auto-Update feature, this feature is enabled by default, but also because the entire on the Internet there are about 2 7% of the sites are using...

VMWare Tools Auto-Update Renders PVS Target Devices Unresponsive

The PVS target device turn unresponsive a few seconds after booting up correctly. The behavior is only observed after devices are rebooted. The device will be marked as down on the PVS console and there will be no retries registered as the device will not reconnect to PVS...

Monthly Usage Report (X Days Left)

Challenge BEM displays "Please submit a monthly usage report x days left" after submitting usage report Cause There are a few scenarios that can produce this message, detailed below in solutions: Solution 1. Partner has submitted a spreadsheet containing monthly usage report information to 2...

Adobe issued a warning: cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Flash 0 day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! As the title of this article, if the user in Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chrome OSoperating systemon the platform to install the Adobe Flash plugin, then the user will likely be subjected to hacker attacks. Adobe has released a security Bulletin and in the Bulletin to remind the user that the Flash...