This Week in Security News: Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts Compromised and Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, over two thousand WordPress sites were compromised using a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam websites. Also, read about how...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php72 (SUSE-SU-2020:0267-1)

This update for php72 fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-11045: Fixed an issue with improper input validation in the filename handling of the DirectoryIterator class bsc1159923. CVE-2019-11046: Fixed an information leak in bcshiftaddsub bsc1159924. CVE-2019-11047, CVE-2019-11050: Fixed multipl...

CVE-2020-8498

XSS exists in the shortcode functionality of the GistPress plugin before 3.0.2 for WordPress via the includes/class-gistpress.php id parameter. This allows an attacker with the WordPress Contributor role to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with the privileges of other users e.g., ones who have t...

SUSE-SU-2020:0267-1 Security update for php72

This update for php72 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-11045: Fixed an issue with improper input validation in the filename handling of the DirectoryIterator class bsc1159923. - CVE-2019-11046: Fixed an information leak in bcshiftaddsub bsc1159924. - CVE-2019-11047, CVE-2019-11050: Fixed...

Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the use of its face-tagging technology to collect facial-recognition data on its social media platform. The company unveiled the settlement on a quarterly financial call Wednesday, in which it...

CVE-2014-3230

The libwww-perl LWP::Protocol::https module 6.04 through 6.06 for Perl, when using IO::Socket::SSL as the SSL socket class, allows attackers to disable server certificate validation via the 1 HTTPSCADIR or 2 HTTPSCAFILE environment variable...

CVE-2014-3230

The libwww-perl LWP::Protocol::https module 6.04 through 6.06 for Perl, when using IO::Socket::SSL as the SSL socket class, allows attackers to disable server certificate validation via the 1 HTTPSCADIR or 2 HTTPSCAFILE environment variable...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for php7 (openSUSE-SU-2020:0080_1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting in SimpleSAMLphp before version 1.18.4. The www/erroreport.php script allows error reports to be submitted and sent to the system administrator. Starting with SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.0, a new SimpleSAML\Utils\EMail class was introduced to handle sending emails, implemented as a...

Input validation

In JFrog Artifactory 5.x and 6.x, insecure FreeMarker template processing leads to remote code execution, e.g., by modifying a .ssh/authorizedkeys file. Patches are available for various versions between 5.11.8 and 6.16.0. The issue exists because use of the DefaultObjectWrapper class makes certa...

The vulnerability of the ptrace subsystem in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to disclose protected information.

The vulnerability of the ptrace subsystem in the Linux operating system is related to errors in implementing measures to protect against Spectre-class vulnerabilities. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to exploit the protected mechanisms...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for exempi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2575)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

apache-commons-beanutils: does not suppresses the class property in PropertyUtilsBean by default

A flaw was found in the Apache Commons BeanUtils, where the class property in PropertyUtilsBean is not suppressed by default. This flaw allows an attacker to access the classloader...

CVE-2020-7229

An issue was discovered in Simplejobscript.com SJS before 1.65. There is unauthenticated SQL injection via the search engine. The parameter is landinglocation. The function is countSearchedJobs. The file is lib/class.Job.php...

Sql injection

An issue was discovered in Simplejobscript.com SJS before 1.65. There is unauthenticated SQL injection via the search engine. The parameter is landinglocation. The function is countSearchedJobs. The file is lib/class.Job.php...

CVE-2020-7229

An issue was discovered in Simplejobscript.com SJS before 1.65. There is unauthenticated SQL injection via the search engine. The parameter is landinglocation. The function is countSearchedJobs. The file is lib/class.Job.php...

jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package

A flaw was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind, where it would permit polymorphic deserialization of malicious objects using the xalan JNDI gadget when used in conjunction with polymorphic type handling methods such as enableDefaultTyping or when @JsonTypeInfo is using Id.CLASS or...

jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in classes of the xalan package

A flaw was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind, where it would permit polymorphic deserialization of malicious objects using the xalan JNDI gadget when used in conjunction with polymorphic type handling methods such as enableDefaultTyping or when @JsonTypeInfo is using Id.CLASS or...

Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M

A Georgia court granted final approval for an Equifax settlement in a class-action lawsuit, after the credit-reporting agency was hit by its massive 2017 data breach. Equifax will pay $380.5 million to settle lawsuits regarding the 2017 data breach, the Atlanta federal judge reportedly ruled this...

InfiniteWP Client < 1.9.4.5 - Authentication Bypass

As per agreement between the researcher and developer, details will be released on January 14th. It is possible to login as any administrator on the site due to logical mistakes in the code. The issue resides in the function iwpmmbsetrequest which is located in the init.php file. This checks if t...