Traffic violation scams swap links for QR codes to steal your card details

As soon as people start to get to grips with a certain type of scam, criminals deploy new tactics to keep stealing money. Now people have learned to distrust links in text messages, scammers have changed the bait, and in 2026 the “new link” is often a QR code tucked inside a fake notice. The late...

Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear

Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules...

Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery SSRF in the process that parses WWW-Authenticate challenges from an upstream registry. An attacker can obtain upstream credentials by manipulating the bearer realm URL to redirect authentication requests to a...

CVE-2026-33540

Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.0, in pull-through cache mode, distribution discovers token auth endpoints by parsing WWW-Authenticate challenges returned by the configured upstream registry. The realm URL from a bearer challenge is used...

PT-2026-30630

Distribution versions prior to 3.1.0 are affected by an issue where the software incorrectly handles token authentication endpoints. Specifically, when operating in pull-through cache mode, the software parses WWW-Authenticate challenges from the upstream registry without validating the realm URL...

Perceptual Gaps: ASCII Art and Overlapping Audio As CAPTCHA

As multimodal large language models LLMs advance, traditional CAPTCHAs have become obsolete at distinguishing humans from bots. To address this shift, this paper aims to investigate the possibility of using tasks for which humans have evolved highly specialised neural processing. We introduce two...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 23, 2026 to March 29, 2026)

Last week, there were 122 vulnerabilities disclosed in 90 WordPress Plugins and 22 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 46 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS via the destination parameter rendered on the challenge page using text/template. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the victim's browser by supplying a crafted value that breaks out ...

CVE-2026-34206

Captcha Protect is a Traefik middleware to add an anti-bot challenge to individual IPs in a subnet when traffic spikes are detected from that subnet. Prior to version 1.12.2, a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in github.com/libops/captcha-protect. The challenge page accepte...

CVE-2026-34206 Captcha Protect: Reflected XSS in challenge page via unsanitized destination rendered with text/template

Captcha Protect is a Traefik middleware to add an anti-bot challenge to individual IPs in a subnet when traffic spikes are detected from that subnet. Prior to version 1.12.2, a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in github.com/libops/captcha-protect. The challenge page accepte...

CVE-2026-34206

Captcha Protect is a Traefik middleware that applies an anti-bot challenge per-subnet. Before v1.12.2, there is a reflected XSS in the challenge page where a client-supplied destination value is rendered with Go text/template (which lacks contextual HTML escaping). An attacker could craft a desti...

CVE-2026-34206 Captcha Protect: Reflected XSS in challenge page via unsanitized destination rendered with text/template

Captcha Protect is a Traefik middleware to add an anti-bot challenge to individual IPs in a subnet when traffic spikes are detected from that subnet. Prior to version 1.12.2, a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in github.com/libops/captcha-protect. The challenge page accepte...

CVE-2026-34206 Captcha Protect: Reflected XSS in challenge page via unsanitized destination rendered with text/template

Captcha Protect is a Traefik middleware to add an anti-bot challenge to individual IPs in a subnet when traffic spikes are detected from that subnet. Prior to version 1.12.2, a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in github.com/libops/captcha-protect. The challenge page accepte...

CVE-2026-27855

Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions. If auth cache is enabled, and username is altered in passdb, then OTP credentials can be cached so that same OTP reply is valid. An attacker able to observe an OTP exchange is able to log in as the user. If...

CVE-2026-27855

Dovecot OTP authentication is vulnerable to replay attack under specific conditions. If auth cache is enabled, and username is altered in passdb, then OTP credentials can be cached so that same OTP reply is valid. An attacker able to observe an OTP exchange is able to log in as the user. If...

EUVD-2026-16128

When a challenge ACK is to be sent tcprespond constructs and sends the challenge ACK and consumes the mbuf that is passed in. When no challenge ACK should be sent the function returns and leaks the mbuf. If an attacker is either on path with an established TCP connection, or can themselves...

CVE-2026-4247

When a challenge ACK is to be sent tcprespond constructs and sends the challenge ACK and consumes the mbuf that is passed in. When no challenge ACK should be sent the function returns and leaks the mbuf. If an attacker is either on path with an established TCP connection, or can themselves...

CVE-2026-4247 TCP: remotely exploitable DoS vector (mbuf leak)

When a challenge ACK is to be sent tcprespond constructs and sends the challenge ACK and consumes the mbuf that is passed in. When no challenge ACK should be sent the function returns and leaks the mbuf. If an attacker is either on path with an established TCP connection, or can themselves...

CVE-2026-4247 TCP: remotely exploitable DoS vector (mbuf leak)

When a challenge ACK is to be sent tcprespond constructs and sends the challenge ACK and consumes the mbuf that is passed in. When no challenge ACK should be sent the function returns and leaks the mbuf. If an attacker is either on path with an established TCP connection, or can themselves...

CVE-2026-4247

When a challenge ACK is to be sent tcprespond constructs and sends the challenge ACK and consumes the mbuf that is passed in. When no challenge ACK should be sent the function returns and leaks the mbuf. If an attacker is either on path with an established TCP connection, or can themselves...