Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator < 1.3.22 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

The plugin does not sanitise or escape one of its parameter before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS which is executed in the context of a logged administrator. Timeline WPScanTeam: June 28th, 2021 - Details sent to vendor July 9th, 2021 - Escalat...

WordPress Favicon plugin <= 1.3.20 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by renniepak in WordPress Favicon plugin versions = 1.3.20. Solution According to WPScanTeam, there were attempts to contact the vendor, but the vulnerability was disclosed due to the vendor's lack of response. Timeline WPScanTeam: June...

MurMurHash - Tool To Calculate A MurmurHash Value Of A Favicon To Hunt Phishing Websites On The Shodan Platform

This little tool is to calculate a MurmurHash value of a favicon to hunt phishing websites on the Shodan platform. What is MurMurHash? MurmurHash is a non-cryptographic hash function suitable for general hash-based lookup. The name comes from two basic operations, multiply MU and rotate R, used i...

Magecart Goes Server-Side in Latest Tactics Changeup

Magecart Group 12, known for skimming payment information from online shoppers, was fingered for last September’s gonzo attack on more than 2,000 e-Commerce sites, and now researchers have issued a report explaining how they did it, detailing a new technical approach. The skimmers are still “very...

Magecart Hackers Now hide PHP-Based Backdoor In Website Favicons

Cybercrime groups are distributing malicious PHP web shells disguised as a favicon to maintain remote access to the compromised servers and inject JavaScript skimmers into online shopping platforms with an aim to steal financial information from their users. "These web shells known as Smilodon or...

Newly observed PHP-based skimmer shows ongoing Magecart Group 12 activity

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura Web skimming continues to be a real and impactful threat to online merchants and shoppers. The threat actors in this space greatly range in sophistication from amateurs all the way to nation state groups like Lazarus. In terms of security, many...

CVE-2021-23986

A malicious extension with the 'search' permission could have installed a new search engine whose favicon referenced a cross-origin URL. The response to this cross-origin request could have been read by the extension, allowing a same-origin policy bypass by the extension, which should not have...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23986

A malicious extension with the 'search' permission could have installed a new search engine whose favicon referenced a cross-origin URL. The response to this cross-origin request could have been read by the extension, allowing a same-origin policy bypass by the extension, which should not have...

Over 2800 e-Shops Running Outdated Magento Software Hit by Credit Card Hackers

A wave of cyberattacks against retailers running the Magento 1.x e-commerce platform earlier this September has been attributed to one single group, according to the latest research. "This group has carried out a large number of diverse Magecart attacks that often compromise large numbers of...

Evasive Credit Card Skimmers Using Homograph Domains and Infected Favicon

Cybersecurity researchers today highlighted an evasive phishing technique that attackers are exploiting in the wild to target visitors of several sites with a quirk in domain names, and leverage modified favicons to inject e-skimmers and steal payment card information covertly. "The idea is simpl...

Inter skimming kit used in homoglyph attacks

As we continue to track web threats and credit card skimming in particular, we often rediscover techniques weve encountered elsewhere before. In this post, we share a recent find that involves what is known as an homoglyph attack. This technique has been exploited for some time already, especiall...

CVE-2020-15502

The CVE-2020-15502 entry describes an information disclosure in the DuckDuckGo mobile apps: versions 5.58.0 for Android and 7.47.1.0 for iOS send hostnames of visited sites inside HTTPS .ico requests to duckduckgo.com, potentially exposing visit data to a Potentially Unwanted Endpoint. The core i...

CVE-2020-15502

The DuckDuckGo application through 5.58.0 for Android, and through 7.47.1.0 for iOS, sends hostnames of visited web sites within HTTPS .ico requests to servers in the duckduckgo.com domain, which might make visit data available temporarily at a Potentially Unwanted Endpoint. NOTE: the vendor has...

PT-2020-14464 · Duckduckgo · Duckduckgo

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: DuckDuckGo versions 5.58.0 and earlier for Android DuckDuckGo versions 7.47.1.0 and earlier for iOS Description: The application sends hostnames of visited web sites within HTTPS .ico requests to servers in the duckduckgo.com domain. This mig...

node-wakeup (0.1.0) potentially affected by CVE-2020-7684 via rollup-plugin-serve-favicon (0.4.7)

rollup-plugin-serve-favicon NPM version 0.4.7 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on rollup-plugin-serve-favicon and may be impacted: - node-wakeup 0.1.0 Source cves: CVE-2020-7684 Source advisory: SNYK:JS-ROLLUPPLUGINSERVEFAVICON-585950...

Credit card skimmer masquerades as favicon

Malware authors are notorious for their deceptive attempts at staying one step ahead of defenders. As their schemes get exposed, they always need to go back to their bag of tricks to pull out a new one. When it comes to online credit card skimmers, we have already seen a number of evasion...

The vulnerability of Firefox browsers arises from the lack of a warning about mixed content when the favicon of a web page is loaded via HTTP. This allows attackers to perform spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability of Firefox browsers arises from the lack of a warning about mixed content when the favicon of a web page is loaded via HTTP. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attacks...

Embedthis GoAhead Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of the Embedthis GoAhead embedded web server. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

Ignite Realtime Openfire Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

Ignite Realtime Openfire is a real-time collaboration RTC server licensed under the open source Apache license. A server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability exists in FaviconServlet.java in Ignite Realtime Openfire 4.4.2 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to send...

PT-2019-5531 · Ignite Realtime · Openfire

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Openfire versions through 4.4.2 Description: A Server Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability in FaviconServlet.java allows attackers to send arbitrary HTTP GET requests. The issue is related to insufficient validation of incoming requests,...