Complianz - GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent < 6.4.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

The plugins do not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks PoC cmplz-consent-area...

Complianz - GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent < 6.4.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

The plugins do not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks cmplz-consent-area...

Mozilla: Extensions could have opened external schemes without user knowledge

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Permission prompts for opening external schemes were only shown for ContentPrincipals resulting in extensions being able to open them without user interaction via ExpandedPrincipals. This could lead to further malicious actions such...

WordPress Plugin 'GDPR Cookie Consent' < 1.8.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-20633)

The WordPress application running on the remote host has a version of the 'GDPR Cookie Consent' plugin that is prior to 1.8.3. It is, therefore, affected by authenticated stored XSS and privilege escalation. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the...

Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads

They say you can't have too much of a good thing. Unfortunately, this applies to ads, too, whether you think they're a good thing or not. Soon, Europes four biggest telecommunication companies--Germany's Deutsche Telekom DK, France's Orange, Spain's Telefonica, and the UK's Vodafone Group--will...

SUSE CVE-2016-9075

An issue where WebExtensions can use the mozAddonManager API to elevate privilege due to privileged pages being allowed in the permissions list. This allows a malicious extension to then install additional extensions without explicit user permission. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50...

SUSE CVE-2017-5389

WebExtensions could use the "mozAddonManager" API by modifying the CSP headers on sites with the appropriate permissions and then using host requests to redirect script loads to a malicious site. This allows a malicious extension to then install additional extensions without explicit user...

SUSE CVE-2018-6109

readAsText can indefinitely read the file picked by the user, rather than only once at the time the file is picked in File API in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to access data on the user file system without explicit consent via a crafted HTML page...

SUSE CVE-2021-43860

Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. Prior to versions 1.12.3 and 1.10.6, Flatpak doesn't properly validate that the permissions displayed to the user for an app at install time match the actual permissions granted to the app at runtime, in the case that there's a...

Consent to gather data is a "misguided" solution, study reveals

When researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication conducted a survey to see if "informed consent" practices are working online with regard to user data gathering, the results revealed weaknesses in a framework that, for decades, has served as the basis for...

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

The plugin does not have authorisation and CSRF check when updating its settings, and does not escape some of them when outputting them, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. An initial fix was released in version 2.10.1, and completed in...

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.10.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

The plugin does not have authorisation and CSRF check when updating its settings, and does not escape some of them when outputting them, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. An initial fix was released in version 2.10.1, and completed in...

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0044-1 Security update for opera

This update for opera fixes the following issues: Update to 95.0.4635.25 CHR-9173 Update Chromium on desktop-stable-109-4635 to 109.0.5414.120 DNA-104150 Turn on consent-flow-settings on master DNA-104733 Crash at extensions::SyncPrivateGetSyncStateFunction::Run DNA-104761 Translations for O95...

Microsoft の調査 – 検証済みの発行者確認を悪用する脅威アクターの同意フィッシング キャンペーンについて

本ブログは、Microsoft Investigation – Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してくださ...

Hackers Abused Microsoft's "Verified Publisher" OAuth Apps to Breach Corporate Email Accounts

Microsoft on Tuesday said it took steps to disable fake Microsoft Partner Network MPN accounts that were used for creating malicious OAuth applications as part of a phishing campaign designed to breach organizations' cloud environments and steal email. "The applications created by these fraudulen...

Hackers Abused Microsoft's "Verified Publisher" OAuth Apps to Breach Corporate Email Accounts

Microsoft on Tuesday said it took steps to disable fake Microsoft Partner Network MPN accounts that were used for creating malicious OAuth applications as part of a phishing campaign designed to breach organizations' cloud environments and steal email. "The applications created by these fraudulen...

WordPress Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Plugin <= 2.10.0 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control

Software Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.10.0 Fixed in 2.10.1 OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Broken Access Control CVE N/A Patch priority High CVSS severity High 6.5 Developer Claim ownership PSID 245cc6c0d18f Credits Wordfence Required...

WordPress Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Plugin <= 2.10.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.10.0 Fixed in 2.10.1 OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE N/A Patch priority High CVSS severity High 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID 90e192c918ce Credits Wordfence...

Microsoft Investigation - Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process

Summary Summary On December 15th, 2022, Microsoft became aware of a consent phishing campaign involving threat actors fraudulently impersonating legitimate companies when enrolling in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program MCPP formerly known as Microsoft Partner Network MPN. The actor used fraudule...

A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet--her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs--was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum. Bizarre? Yes...