Friday Squid Blogging: What to Do When You Find a Squid “Egg Mop”

Tips on what to do if you find a mop of squid eggs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products

While recent research has focused on developing safeguards for generative AI GAI model-level content safety, little is known about how content moderation to prevent malicious content performs for end-users in real-world GAI products. To bridge this gap, we investigated content moderation policies...

New TokenBreak Attack Bypasses AI Moderation with Single-Character Text Changes

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack technique called TokenBreak that can be used to bypass a large language model's LLM safety and content moderation guardrails with just a single character change. "The TokenBreak attack targets a text classification model's tokenization...

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)

Can you imagine, blockchain transactions can talk! In this paper, we study how they talk and what they talk about. We focus on the input data field of Ethereum transactions, which is designed to allow external callers to interact with smart contracts. In practice, this field also enables users to...

CVE-2022-39302

Ree6 is a moderation bot. This vulnerability would allow other server owners to create configurations such as "Better-Audit-Logging" which contain a channel from another server as a target. This would mean you could send log messages to another Guild channel and bypass raid and webhook protection...

CVE-2018-20897

cPanel before 71.9980.37 allows arbitrary file-unlink operations via the cPAddons moderation system SEC-395...

CVE-2013-7233

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list...

CVE-2018-20898

cPanel before 71.9980.37 allows e-mail injection during cPAddons moderation SEC-396...

CVE-2018-20876

cPanel before 74.0.8 allows self XSS in the Site Software Moderation interface SEC-434...

LinkedIn: Previous commentor on post can still comment even after comment permission is changed to disabled

A logic error existed in the comment permission system that allowed users who had previously commented on a post to continue posting additional comments even after the post owner disabled commenting functionality. The vulnerability occurred when an account created a post with comments enabled,...

CVE-2025-2104

The Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to insufficient validation on the pagelayersavecontent function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

PT-2025-11143 · Pagelayer · Pagelayer

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Page Builder: Pagelayer versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 Description: The issue is related to insufficient validation on the pagelayer save content function, allowing authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Loyalty Cards

Squid is a loyalty card platform in Ireland. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid

Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy...

CVE-2025-24024

Mjolnir is a moderation tool for Matrix. Mjolnir v1.9.0 responds to management commands from any room the bot is member of. This can allow users who aren't operators of the bot to use the bot's functions, including server administration components if enabled. Version 1.9.1 reverts the feature tha...

CVE-2022-39303

Ree6 is a moderation bot. This vulnerability allows manipulation of SQL queries. This issue has been patched in version 1.7.0 by using Javas PreparedStatements, which allow object setting without the risk of SQL injection. There are currently no known workarounds...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains

Interesting. Blog moderation policy...

go1.24-1.24rc2-1.1 on GA media (moderate)

go1.24-1.24rc2-1.1 on GA media Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:14693-1 Rating: moderate Cross-References: CVE-2024-45336 CVE-2024-45340 CVE-2024-45341 CVE-2025-22865 CVSS scores: CVE-2024-45340 SUSE : 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVE-2025-22865 SUSE : 7.5...

CVE-2025-24024

Mjolnir is a moderation tool for Matrix. Mjolnir v1.9.0 responds to management commands from any room the bot is member of. This can allow users who aren't operators of the bot to use the bot's functions, including server administration components if enabled. Version 1.9.1 reverts the feature tha...

CVE-2025-24024 Mjolnir v1.9.0 accepts commands from any room

Mjolnir is a moderation tool for Matrix. Mjolnir v1.9.0 responds to management commands from any room the bot is member of. This can allow users who aren't operators of the bot to use the bot's functions, including server administration components if enabled. Version 1.9.1 reverts the feature tha...