Novel Blockchain-Based Protocols for Electronic Voting and Auctions

Programmable blockchains have long been a hot research topic given their tremendous use in decentralized applications. Smart contracts, using blockchains as their underlying technology, inherit the desired properties such as verifiability, immutability, and transparency, which make it a great sui...

How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn't just political polarization--it's a creeping...

PhishKey: a Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction

Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to address the challenges of adaptability, robustness, and efficiency. PhishKey is a novel phishing detection method using...

WebGuard++: Interpretable Malicious URL Detection Via Bidirectional Fusion of HTML Subgraphs and Multi-Scale Convolutional BERT

URL+HTML feature fusion shows promise for robust malicious URL detection, since attacker artifacts persist in DOM structures. However, prior work suffers from four critical shortcomings: 1 incomplete URL modeling, failing to jointly capture lexical patterns and semantic context; 2 HTML graph...

CVE-2025-50017

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Matt WP Voting Contest wp-voting-contest allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Voting Contest: from n/a through = 5.8...

CVE-2025-6352

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /vote.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to direct request. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been...

Smart Buildings Energy Consumption Forecasting Using Adaptive Evolutionary Ensemble Learning Models

Smart buildings are gaining popularity because they can enhance energy efficiency, lower costs, improve security, and provide a more comfortable and convenient environment for building occupants. A considerable portion of the global energy supply is consumed in the building sector and plays a...

Busting the Paper Ballot: Voting Meets Adversarial Machine Learning

We show the security risk associated with using machine learning classifiers in United States election tabulators. The central classification task in election tabulation is deciding whether a mark does or does not appear on a bubble associated to an alternative in a contest on the ballot. Barrett...

CVE-2025-6352

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /vote.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to direct request. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been...

CVE-2025-6352

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /vote.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to direct request. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been...

CVE-2025-6352 code-projects Automated Voting System Backend vote.php direct request

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /vote.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to direct request. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been...

CVE-2025-6352 code-projects Automated Voting System Backend vote.php direct request

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /vote.php of the component Backend. The manipulation leads to direct request. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been...

CVE-2025-6352

CVE-2025-6352 affects code-projects Automated Voting System 1.0, Backend vote.php. The vulnerability involves an unknown function in /vote.php enabling direct request manipulation that can be triggered remotely, with exploitation disclosed publicly. Multiple connected sources corroborate a remote...

CVE-2025-50017

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Matt WP Voting Contest wp-voting-contest allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Voting Contest: from n/a through = 5.8...

CVE-2025-50017

CVE-2025-50017 is a stored XSS in the WordPress plugin WP Voting Contest (versions n/a through 5.8). The issue stems from improper input neutralization during web page generation, enabling attacker-supplied input to be stored and later reflected to users. According to sources, the vulnerability a...

CVE-2025-50017 WordPress WP Voting Contest plugin <= 5.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Matt WP Voting Contest wp-voting-contest allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Voting Contest: from n/a through = 5.8...

CVE-2025-50017 WordPress WP Voting Contest plugin <= 5.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Matt WP Voting Contest wp-voting-contest allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WP Voting Contest: from n/a through = 5.8...

PT-2025-26374 · WordPress · Matt Wp Voting Contest

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Matt WP Voting Contest versions n/a through 5.8 Description: The issue is related to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, also known as Cross-site Scripting, which allows Stored XSS. This means that an attacker can...

PT-2025-26443 · Unknown · Automated Voting System

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: code-projects Automated Voting System version 1.0 Description: A problematic vulnerability has been found in the Automated Voting System. It affects an unknown function of the file /vote.php in the Backend component. The manipulation leads to...

code-projects Automated Voting System 安全漏洞

Automated Voting System is an automated voting system. Automated Voting System suffers from an unspecified vulnerability that stems from susceptibility to direct request attacks. No details of the vulnerability are available at this time...