How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn't just political polarization--it's a creeping...

Busting the Paper Ballot: Voting Meets Adversarial Machine Learning

We show the security risk associated with using machine learning classifiers in United States election tabulators. The central classification task in election tabulation is deciding whether a mark does or does not appear on a bubble associated to an alternative in a contest on the ballot. Barrett...

CVE-2020-9336

fauzantrif eLection 2.0 has XSS via the Admin Dashboard - Settings - Election - "message if election is closed" field...

CVE-2020-9340

fauzantrif eLection 2.0 has SQL Injection via the admin/ajax/opkandidat.php id parameter...

Proof-Of-Social-Capital: Privacy-Preserving Consensus Protocol Replacing Stake for Social Capital

Consensus protocols used today in blockchains often rely on computational power or financial stakes - scarce resources. We propose a novel protocol using social capital - trust and influence from social interactions - as a non-transferable staking mechanism to ensure fairness and decentralization...

Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs , the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances...

BoardRoom Dividend Distribution Tax Election System Security Vulnerability

BoardRoom Dividend Distribution Tax Election System is a dividend distribution tax election system from BoardRoom, Inc. A security vulnerability exists in BoardRoom Dividend Distribution Tax Election System version v2.0. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code via...

CVE-2024-55460: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

A time-based SQL injection vulnerability in the login page of BoardRoom Limited Dividend Distribution Tax Election System Version v2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted input...

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED...

CVE-2025-23499

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Pascal Casier Board Election board-election allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Board Election: from n/a through = 1.0.1...

CVE-2025-23499 WordPress Board Election plugin <= 1.0.1 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Pascal Casier Board Election board-election allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Board Election: from n/a through = 1.0.1...

CVE-2025-23499

CVE-2025-23499 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the Board Election plugin for WordPress that enables Stored XSS. Affected software is the Board Election plugin, with versions from n/a up to 1.0.1. The description across sources confirms the CSRF to stored-XSS vector and impact, wi...

WordPress Board Election plugin <= 1.0.1 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by SOPROBRO in WordPress Plugin Board Election versions = 1.0.1...

CVE-2025-23499: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Pascal Casier Board Election board-election allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Board Election: from n/a through = 1.0.1...

WordPress plugin Board Election has a cross-site request forgeing vulnerability.

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site request forger...

PT-2025-4907

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pascal Casier Board Election versions prior to 1.0.1 Description The issue is related to a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability that allows Stored XSS. This means an attacker can trick a user into performing unintended actions on the...

Report of Special Counsel Smith Volume 1

Special Counsel Jack Smith's January 2025 report concluded that former President Donald Trump engaged in a criminal effort to overturn the 2020 election results, including pressuring officials and inciting the January 6 Capitol riot. Smith asserted that sufficient evidence existed to convict Trum...

CISA: Election Infrastructure Security Resource Guide

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CISA: DHS Election Infrastructure Security Funding Consideration

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Iranian and Russian Entities Sanctioned for Election Interference Using AI and Cyber Tactics

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC on Tuesday leveled sanctions against two entities in Iran and Russia for their attempts to interfere with the November 2024 presidential election. The federal agency said the entities – a subordinate organization of Iran's Islam...