A week in security (February 16 – February 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say Facebook ads spread fake Windows 11 downloads that steal passwords and crypto wallets AI-generated passwords are a security risk Intimate products maker Tenga spilled customer data Meta patents ...

Directory Traversal

Overview mlflow is a platform to streamline machine learning development, including tracking experiments, packaging code into reproducible runs, and sharing and deploying models. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the 'findrunroot function in the FileStore...

Meta patents AI that could keep you posting from beyond the grave

Tech bros have been wanting to become immortal for years. Until they get there, their fallback might be continuing to post nonsense on social media from the afterlife. On December 30, 2025, Meta was granted US patent 12513102B2: Simulation of a user of a social networking system using a language...

WordPress Image Hotspot by DevVN plugin <= 1.2.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field Meta vulnerability

Authenticated Author+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field Meta vulnerability discovered by Muhammad Yudha - DJ in WordPress Plugin Image Hotspot by DevVN versions = 1.2.9...

Trojan Horses in Recruiting: A Red-Teaming Case Study on Indirect Prompt Injection in Standard Vs. Reasoning Models

As Large Language Models LLMs are increasingly integrated into automated decision-making pipelines, specifically within Human Resources HR, the security implications of Indirect Prompt Injection IPI become critical. While a prevailing hypothesis posits that "Reasoning" or "Chain-of-Thought" Model...

WordPress Video Share VOD plugin <= 2.7.11 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field Meta Values vulnerability

Authenticated Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Field Meta Values vulnerability discovered by Tarcísio Luchesi De Almeida Silva Poystick in WordPress Plugin Video Share VOD versions = 2.7.11...

tomcat: org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-catalina: Apache Tomcat: Directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE

A directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat caused by improper URL normalization during request rewriting. When specific rewrite rules are used, an attacker could craft a malicious request to bypass access restrictions and reach protected directories such as /WEB-INF/ or /META-INF/. If...

ROS-20260216-73-0001

A vulnerability in the hasmetacommands function of the pgAdmin 4 database management tool is related to incorrect code generation control. Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to bypass existing security mechanisms by injecting a specially generated SQL file...

Ring Kills Flock Safety Deal After Super Bowl Ad Uproar

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CVE-2026-0736

The Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'inpostheadscriptsynthheaderscript' post meta field in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible fo...

CVE-2026-0736 Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️ <= 2.4.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta Field

The Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'inpostheadscriptsynthheaderscript' post meta field in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible fo...

CVE-2026-0736

The Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'inpostheadscriptsynthheaderscript' post meta field in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible fo...

CVE-2026-0736 Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️ <= 2.4.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta Field

The Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'inpostheadscriptsynthheaderscript' post meta field in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible fo...

CVE-2026-0736

CVE-2026-0736 describes a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the WordPress plugin “Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat” for versions up to 2.4.8. The root cause is insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the post meta field _inpost_head_script[synth_header_script]. Expl...

WordPress Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️ plugin <= 2.4.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta Field vulnerability

Authenticated Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta Field vulnerability discovered by Deadbee - NA in WordPress Plugin collectchat versions = 2.4.8...

Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Business Data, Emails, and Browsing History

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that's designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager. The extension, named CL Suite by @CLMasters ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl, is marketed as a way to scrape Meta...

Unknown Attack Detection in IoT Networks Using Large Language Models: A Robust, Data-Efficient Approach

The rapid evolution of cyberattacks continues to drive the emergence of unknown zero-day threats, posing significant challenges for network intrusion detection systems in Internet of Things IoT networks. Existing machine learning and deep learning approaches typically rely on large labeled...

Agentic AI for Cybersecurity: A Meta-Cognitive Architecture for Governable Autonomy

Contemporary AI-driven cybersecurity systems are predominantly architected as model-centric detection and automation pipelines optimized for task-level performance metrics such as accuracy and response latency. While effective for bounded classification tasks, these architectures struggle to...

CVE-2026-24045

Docmost is open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. From 0.20.0 and before 0.25.0, the public share page functionality in Docmost does not properly HTML-escape page titles before inserting them into meta tags and the title tag. This allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks...

CVE-2026-24045

Docmost 0.25.0 fixes a stored XSS on the public share page where page titles are inserted into meta and title tags without proper HTML escaping. Affected: Docmost prior to 0.25.0. Severity: high (CVSS 3.1 base 7.3). Impact: arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of any user who opens a sha...