How Telegram Became a Terrifying Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War

Hamas posted gruesome images and videos that were designed to go viral. Sources argue that Telegram’s lax moderation ensured they were seen around the world...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2023-047

This module enables notifications to be sent to all users of a particular role, or to the content's author when a piece of content is transitioned from one state to another via core's content\moderation module. The module doesn't sufficiently check access to content when sending notifications. Th...

Content Moderation Notifications - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2023-047

This module enables notifications to be sent to all users of a particular role, or to the content's author when a piece of content is transitioned from one state to another via core's contentmoderation module. The module doesn't sufficiently check access to content when sending notifications. Thi...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2023-039

This module aims to prevent broken content references by informing content editors either on delete or archive moderation. The module provides an "orphaned content" report for broken references, which may reveal titles of unpublished content...

MasterStudy LMS < 3.0.18 - Unauthenticated Instructor Account Creation

Description The plugin does not have proper checks in place during registration allowing anyone to register on the site as an instructor. They can then add courses and/or posts. 1. Visit the Profiles Settings page for the plugin: MS LMS LMS Settings Profiles 2. Ensure that "Disable Instructor...

YouTube makes sweeping changes to tackle spam on Shorts videos

YouTube is rolling out unclickable links. Video portals like YouTube have had to deal with spam comments and bogus links for many years. With new additions to a platform come new places for scammers to go about their business. YouTube is now cracking down on links posted to the comments section o...

WordPress BuddyForms Moderation ( Former: Review Logic ) Plugin <= 1.4.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software BuddyForms Moderation Former: Review Logic Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.4.7 Fixed in 1.4.8 OWASP Top 10 A3: Injection Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2023-33999 Patch priority High CVSS severity High 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID 8604cd24c7fb Credits Rafie...

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over...

Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law thats been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. But at a deeper...

CVE-2023-22455 Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through tag descriptions

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, tag descriptions, which can be updated by moderators, can be used for cross-site scripting attacks. This vulnerability can lead to a full...

Design/Logic Flaw

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-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...

CVE-2022-39302

CVE-2022-39302 affects Ree6, a Discord moderation bot. Multiple sources describe a cross-server channel targeting flaw where a specially crafted log message can cause a configuration like “Better-Audit-Logging” to reference a channel in another server, enabling sending log messages to that channe...

CVE-2022-39303

CVE-2022-39303 (Ree6) is a SQL injection vulnerability in Ree6 moderation bot. The issue allows manipulation of SQL queries in versions prior to 1.7.0. The vulnerability was mitigated by upgrading to 1.7.0, which uses Java PreparedStatements to safely set parameters and prevent injection. The con...

CVE-2022-39302 Ree6 may bypass webhook protection

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...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

5.14.0-70.26.1.0.10.OL9 - lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use Daniel Thompson Orabug: 34290418 CVE-2022-21499 5.14.0-70.26.10.OL9 - Update Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted...

CVE-2022-30015

In Simple Food Website 1.0, a moderation can put the Cross Site Scripting Payload in any of the fields on http://127.0.0.1:1234/food/admin/allusers.php like Full Username, etc .This causes stored xss...

Design/Logic Flaw

x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users who share the sam...

CVE-2022-23604

Affected software: x26-Cogs Defender cog for the Red Discord bot. Vulnerability: pre-1.10.0 Defender allowed users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users on the same server, enabling potential privilege escalation to bot-owner restricted commands if a bot owner shares the server. ...

WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption Isn’t Actually Broken

End-to-end encryption isn’t designed to secure messages against the intended recipients. New revelations about WhatsApp’s moderator access to messages last week might seem like they run counter to the company’s privacy-forward brand, but a closer look shows the messaging service’s privacy...