CVE-2019-9918

CVE-2019-9918 affects Harmis JE Messenger for Joomla! v1.2.2. The root cause is unvalidated input and poorly written queries, enabling arbitrary SQL statements in the database. Exploitation details are not provided in the documents. A remediation patch/version is not specified in the given materi...

CVE-2019-9918

An issue was discovered in the Harmis JE Messenger component 1.2.2 for Joomla!. Input does not get validated and queries are not written in a way to prevent SQL injection. Therefore arbitrary SQL-Statements can be executed in the database...

PT-2019-19936 · Harmis · Harmis Je Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2 Description: An issue was discovered in the Harmis JE Messenger component for Joomla!, allowing an action to be performed within the context of another user's account. Recommendations: For version...

PT-2019-19938 · Joomla · Harmis Je Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2 for Joomla! Description: An issue allows Directory Traversal, which enables read access to arbitrary files. Recommendations: For Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2, update to a version that...

PT-2019-19935 · Joomla · Harmis Je Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2 Description: An issue was discovered in the Harmis JE Messenger component for Joomla!. It is possible to craft messages in a way that JavaScript gets executed on the side of the receiving user when...

PT-2019-19934 · Joomla · Harmis Je Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2 for Joomla! Description: The issue allows for the execution of arbitrary SQL statements in the database due to a lack of input validation and improper query writing, making it susceptible to SQL...

PT-2019-19937 · Joomla · Harmis Je Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Harmis JE Messenger component version 1.2.2 Description: An issue in the Harmis JE Messenger component for Joomla allows reading information that should only be accessible by a different user. Recommendations: For version 1.2.2, update to a...

Open redirect

Open Whisper Signal aka Signal-Desktop through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin...

CVE-2019-9970

Open Whisper Signal aka Signal-Desktop through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin...

CVE-2019-9970

Open Whisper Signal (Signal-Desktop) up to version 1.23.1 and Signal Private Messenger for Android up to 4.35.3 are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages that contain URLs. The root cause is that the app renders a clickable link even when the domain contains mixed Latin/C...

CVE-2019-9970

Open Whisper Signal aka Signal-Desktop through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin...

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

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CVE-2018-11820

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