A week in security (February 9 – February 15)

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Criminals are using AI website builders to clone major brands

AI tool Vercel was abused by cybercriminals to create a Malwarebytes lookalike website. Cybercriminals no longer need design or coding skills to create a convincing fake brand site. All they need is a domain name and an AI website builder. In minutes, they can clone a site's look and feel, plug i...

CVE-2025-68581

Missing Authorization vulnerability in YITHEMES YITH Slider for page builders yith-slider-for-page-builders allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects YITH Slider for page builders: from n/a through = 1.0.11...

WordPress YITH Slider for page builders plugin <= 1.0.11 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Broken Access Control vulnerability discovered by Nabil Irawan in WordPress Plugin YITH Slider for page builders versions = 1.0.11...

EUVD-2025-205254

Missing Authorization vulnerability in YITHEMES YITH Slider for page builders yith-slider-for-page-builders allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects YITH Slider for page builders: from n/a through = 1.0.11...

CVE-2025-68581

Missing Authorization vulnerability in YITHEMES YITH Slider for page builders yith-slider-for-page-builders allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects YITH Slider for page builders: from n/a through = 1.0.11...

CVE-2025-68581 WordPress YITH Slider for page builders plugin <= 1.0.11 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Missing Authorization vulnerability in YITHEMES YITH Slider for page builders yith-slider-for-page-builders allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects YITH Slider for page builders: from n/a through = 1.0.11...

CVE-2025-68581 WordPress YITH Slider for page builders plugin <= 1.0.11 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Missing Authorization vulnerability in YITHEMES YITH Slider for page builders yith-slider-for-page-builders allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects YITH Slider for page builders: from n/a through = 1.0.11...

CVE-2025-68581

Technical details about CVE-2025-68581 (affected product, version, impact, and fix) are not publicly provided in the supplied documents; monitor for updates.

PT-2025-53269

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions YITH Slider for page builders versions through 1.0.11 Description The software contains a missing authorization issue due to incorrectly configured access control security levels. Recommendations Update YITH Slider for page builders to a versi...

WordPress plugin YITH Slider for page builders 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform has the ability to host personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL based servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerabili...

CVE-2024-58318

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows attackers to inject malicious scripts via the rich text editor component for page and form builders. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by entering malicious URIs, potentially allowing malicious scripts to execute in...

CVE-2024-58318 Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.162 Rich Text Editor Stored XSS

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows attackers to inject malicious scripts via the rich text editor component for page and form builders. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by entering malicious URIs, potentially allowing malicious scripts to execute in...

CVE-2024-58318 Kentico Xperience <= 13.0.162 Rich Text Editor Stored XSS

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows attackers to inject malicious scripts via the rich text editor component for page and form builders. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by entering malicious URIs, potentially allowing malicious scripts to execute in...

PT-2025-52325

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kentico Xperience affected versions not specified Description A stored cross-site scripting issue exists in Kentico Xperience. This allows attackers to inject malicious scripts through the rich text editor component used in page and form...

EUVD-2016-9865

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2024-46343

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

GHSA-3J63-5H8P-GF7C x402 SDK vulnerable in outdated versions in resource servers for builders

Impact There is a security vulnerability in outdated versions of the x402 SDK. This does not directly affect users' keys, smart contracts, or funds. This primarily impacts builders working on resource servers. Patches Please update to the following package versions: x402 = 0.5.2 x402-next = 0.5.2...

x402 SDK vulnerable in outdated versions in resource servers for builders

Impact There is a security vulnerability in outdated versions of the x402 SDK. This does not directly affect users' keys, smart contracts, or funds. This primarily impacts builders working on resource servers. Patches Please update to the following package versions: x402 = 0.5.2 x402-next = 0.5.2...

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: the Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economics and dynamics behind arbitrages between centralized and decentralized exchanges CEX-DEX on Ethereum. We refine heuristics to identify arbitrage transactions from on-chain data and introduce a robust empirical framework to...