Friday Squid Blogging: Regulating Squid Fishing in the South Pacific

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization SPRFMO needs to regulate squid fishing in the South Pacific. 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...

Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid

Article about the bigfin squid. 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...

CVE-2026-7525

The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.9. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers,...

PT-2026-40850

The My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.9. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers,...

CVE-2026-41243

OpenLearn's OpenLearn project has a vulnerability CVE-2026-41243 where, prior to commit 844b2a40a69d0c4911580fe501923f0b391313ab, enabling safeMode does not prevent public access to unapproved posts via direct post UUID. The post-read path still returns full content to anyone who has the UUID, ev...

CVE-2026-41243 OpenLearn's pending forum posts remain publicly readable by direct ID when moderation mode is enabled

OpenLearn is open-source educational forum software. Prior to commit 844b2a40a69d0c4911580fe501923f0b391313ab, when safeMode is enabled, unapproved forum posts are hidden from the public list, but the direct post-read procedure still returns the full post to anyone with the post UUID. Commit...

Transient Turn Injection: Exposing Stateless Multi-Turn Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs are increasingly integrated into sensitive workflows, raising the stakes for adversarial robustness and safety. This paper introduces Transient Turn InjectionTTI, a new multi-turn attack technique that systematically exploits stateless moderation by distributing...

GHSA-F3Q6-69F3-VWCH FastChat has a Content Moderation Bypass via Arena Side-by-Side Views

A vulnerability was detected in lm-sys fastchat up to 0.2.36. Impacted is the function addtext of the component Arena Side-by-Side View Handler. The manipulation results in incorrect control flow. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used. The root cause was...

FastChat has a Content Moderation Bypass via Arena Side-by-Side Views

A vulnerability was detected in lm-sys fastchat up to 0.2.36. Impacted is the function addtext of the component Arena Side-by-Side View Handler. The manipulation results in incorrect control flow. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit is now public and may be used. The root cause was...

GHSA-FWG7-53P4-G33C Ech0 Comment Panel Endpoints Missing RequireScopes Middleware — Scoped Access Token Bypass

Summary All 9 comment panel admin endpoints /api/panel/comments/ are missing RequireScopes middleware, while every other admin endpoint in the application enforces scope-based authorization on access tokens. An admin-issued access token scoped to minimal permissions e.g., echo:read only can perfo...

Missing Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization due to the lack of a RequireScopes call in internal/router/comment.go comment panel admin endpoint. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to comment moderation operations, including listing, approving, rejecting...

Ech0 Comment Panel Endpoints Missing RequireScopes Middleware — Scoped Access Token Bypass

Summary All 9 comment panel admin endpoints /api/panel/comments/ are missing RequireScopes middleware, while every other admin endpoint in the application enforces scope-based authorization on access tokens. An admin-issued access token scoped to minimal permissions e.g., echo:read only can perfo...

CVE-2026-34738

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 26.0 and prior, AVideo's video processing pipeline accepts an overrideStatus request parameter that allows any uploader to set a video's status to any valid state, including "active" a. This bypasses the admin-controlled moderation and dra...

GHSA-M577-W9J8-CH7J AVideo: Video Publishing Workflow Bypass via Unauthorized overrideStatus Request Parameter

Summary AVideo's video processing pipeline accepts an overrideStatus request parameter that allows any uploader to set a video's status to any valid state, including "active" a. This bypasses the admin-controlled moderation and draft workflows. The setStatus method validates the status code again...

EUVD-2026-17656

AVideo: Video Publishing Workflow Bypass via Unauthorized overrideStatus Request Parameter...

Improper Authorization

Overview wwbn/avideo is an Audio and Video Platform or simply "A Video Platform". Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization in the overrideStatus request parameter, which is processed by the setStatus function. An attacker can bypass administrative moderation and...

AVideo: Video Publishing Workflow Bypass via Unauthorized overrideStatus Request Parameter

Summary AVideo's video processing pipeline accepts an overrideStatus request parameter that allows any uploader to set a video's status to any valid state, including "active" a. This bypasses the admin-controlled moderation and draft workflows. The setStatus method validates the status code again...

CVE-2026-34738

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 26.0 and prior, AVideo's video processing pipeline accepts an overrideStatus request parameter that allows any uploader to set a video's status to any valid state, including "active" a. This bypasses the admin-controlled moderation and dra...

CVE-2026-34738 AVideo: Video Publishing Workflow Bypass via Unauthorized overrideStatus Request Parameter

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 26.0 and prior, AVideo's video processing pipeline accepts an overrideStatus request parameter that allows any uploader to set a video's status to any valid state, including "active" a. This bypasses the admin-controlled moderation and dra...

CVE-2026-34738

CVE-2026-34738 affects WWBN AVideo (