Vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft Developer Tools

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in several Visual Studio and .NET components. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to bypass security measures, grant themselves elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code with the victim's privileges. For successful abuse, the...

GHSA-QGM9-RXMQ-JXMQ Concrete CMS Stored XSS in the Search Field

Concrete CMS version 9 prior to 9.2.8 and previous versions prior to 8.5.16 are vulnerable to Stored XSS in the Search Field. Prior to the fix, stored XSS could be executed by an administrator changing a filter to which a rogue administrator had previously added malicious code. The Concrete CMS...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

Vulnerabilities related to Unicode fixed

Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh have developed developed attack methods for compromising open-source software. This involves the abuse of Unicode control characters. By placing control characters in the source code at tactical places in tactical places, source code is...

Vulnerability fixed in Mattermost

A vulnerability has been fixed in Mattermost. The vulnerability allows a remote malicious person to execute arbitrary code execute arbitrary code under user privileges. To do this, the malicious party must induce the victim to enter rogue code. Mattermost has released updates to fix the...

Malicious Code Bombs Target Amazon, Lyft, Slack, Zillow

Researchers have spotted malicious packages targeting internal applications for Amazon, Lyft, Slack and Zillow among others inside the npm public code repository — all of which exfiltrate sensitive information. The packages weaponize a proof-of-concept PoC code dependency-confusion exploit that w...