CVE-2023-32693

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The external link feature is susceptible to cross-site scripting. This allows a remote attacker to execute JavaScript code in...

Cross site scripting

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The processes filter feature is susceptible to Cross-site scripting. This allows a remote attacker to execute JavaScript code ...

Design/Logic Flaw

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. Decidim uses a third-party library named Ransack for filtering certain database collections e.g., public meetings. By default,...

CVE-2023-34089

CVE-2023-34089 affects Decidim (Ruby on Rails) where the processes filter feature is vulnerable to Cross-site scripting. The underlying issue allows a remote attacker to run JavaScript in the context of a logged-in user, potentially causing other users to endorse or support proposals. Patches are...

CVE-2023-34089 Decidim Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the processes filter

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The processes filter feature is susceptible to Cross-site scripting. This allows a remote attacker to execute JavaScript code ...

CVE-2023-34089 Decidim Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the processes filter

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The processes filter feature is susceptible to Cross-site scripting. This allows a remote attacker to execute JavaScript code ...

CVE-2023-34090

Summary: Decidim prior to 0.27.3 is affected by a data disclosure issue due to the Ransack filtering default behavior allowing all data attributes/associations to be queried, enabling an unauthenticated remote attacker to exfiltrate non-public data from the underlying database. Root cause: Miscon...

CVE-2023-32693 Decidim Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the external link redirections

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The external link feature is susceptible to cross-site scripting. This allows a remote attacker to execute JavaScript code in...

CVE-2023-32693

Summary: CVE-2023-32693 affects the Decidim framework (Ruby on Rails). The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Scripting flaw in the external link feature, allowing a remote attacker to execute JavaScript in the context of a logged-in user and potentially influence user endorsements of proposals. Affec...

AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments

Its become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in faceless form. But what if AI turns out to be the one tool able to identify what makes your ideas special,...

CVE-2022-48506

A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...

CVE-2022-48506

A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...

Code injection

A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...

CVE-2022-48506

CVE-2022-48506 concerns a flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct (ICP and ICP2) and ImageCast Evolution (ICE) scanners. The vulnerability allows deanonymization of voted ballots by deducing the order of ballot casting from public ballot-level data. Affe...

CVE-2022-48506

A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...

democracy-reporting.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3412067

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

AI to Aid Democracy

Theres good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux...

NSO Group Used 3 Zero-Click iPhone Exploits Against Human Rights Defenders

Israeli spyware maker NSO Group deployed at least three novel "zero-click" exploits against iPhones in 2022 to infiltrate defenses erected by Apple and deploy Pegasus, according to the latest findings from Citizen Lab. "NSO Group customers widely deployed at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-cli...

Defending against AI Lobbyists

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own technology. That happened last month. And because the letter was responding to an essay we wrote, were starting t...

Reimagining Democracy

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a "what we need to do today" perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit ...