Imperva Customers Protected Against XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) in WordPress Core

TL;DR: CVE-2026-64638, dubbed XSS2Shell, is a high-severity WordPress Core vulnerability that begins as a pre-authentication reflected XSS on the login screen and can be chained to PHP code execution when a logged-in administrator is successfully targeted. WordPress fixed the issue in 7.0.3 and...

What SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP 5.0 means for your application security

You cannot verify a vendor’s security claims from their own datasheet, including ours. That is why independent validation matters. In our recent guide to the best WAAP solutions Best WAAP Solutions 2026: Enterprise Buyer Guide, we argued that every serious shortlist should include independent...

Why Generative AI Needs a New Kind of Security

There is a moment every CISO is having right now, often without warning. A developer shows a working internal demo of an AI assistant trained on the company's own documents. The product team is already planning a customer-facing version. The board has signed off on the budget. And somewhere in th...

ShadowAI-Watch: Bringing AI Agent Activity Out of the Shadows

AI agents are rapidly becoming part of everyday development. They operate inside terminals, IDEs, and internal workflows, helping users write code, troubleshoot problems, and automate repetitive tasks. But their capabilities can extend far beyond what users see in the chat interface or terminal...

Imperva Customers Protected Against Novel HTTP Desync Attacks

TL;DR: Recent Portswigger research introduced novel HTTP desync techniques discovered through an AI-assisted research system called the HTTP Terminator. The findings expand the range of unusual HTTP behaviors that can cause front-end and back-end systems to interpret the same traffic differently...

Agentic AI Security: The Chatbot Era Is Already Over

There is a diagram most security teams still carry in their heads when they think about AI. A user talks to a chatbot. The chatbot talks to a large language model. The model talks back. Put an inspection point in the middle, and the problem is solved. That diagram was accurate for about eighteen...

MCP Server Security: The Blind Spot in Your AI Stack

Short version: an MCP server is the tooling layer that lets an AI agent act on external systems. Hosted remotely, it is an API endpoint like any other — and it needs bot and WAF controls in front of it, API security on its own endpoints, and AI guardrails that inspect what the tools send back, no...

Google Australia Customers Now Benefit From Imperva Cloud-Native WAAP Security

Many Australian businesses have moved their applications and data to cloud-native architectures for agility, scalability, and sovereignty. However, this move extends their attack surface beyond their typical security boundaries. As evidenced by the Thales 2026 Data Threat Report, attackers...

Closing the Sovereignty Gap: Bringing Active API Protection to Self-Managed Environments

How Thales is bringing active API protection to self-managed environments, without compromising digital sovereignty. APIs Changed Faster Than Security Architectures Organizations have invested heavily in discovering APIs, classifying sensitive data, and understanding API risk. That's progress. Bu...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-16723: Critical FastJson 1.x Zero-Day RCE

TL;DR:A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been disclosed in FastJson, a widely used JSON processing library for Java. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-16723 with a CVSS score of 9.0 Critical, affects FastJson versions 1.2.68 through 1.2.83 under specific Spring Boot deployment...

Imperva Customers Protected Against “wp2shell” Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core

TL;DR : A critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability, dubbed "wp2shell" CVE-2026-63030, has been identified in WordPress Core. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable WordPress installation without any preconditions,...

Code Injection in Perforce Helix Core (CVE-2026-6902)

Executive Summary In this article, we disclose our latest findings we made on Perforce protocol P4 Helix Core between command line client and server, and reveal how a threat actor could leverage it to conduct attacks. This security issue affects P4 Helix Core before P4 Helix Core 2025.2 Patch 2,...

AI Agents Are Visiting Your Website. Which Ones Should You Trust?

The internet is changing fast. For years, the main goal of search was simple: to help users find links. A user searched, reviewed results, clicked a website, and consumed the content directly from the source. But AI is changing that model. Increasingly, users ask AI assistants for answers instead...

API Security Demystified: Which Tools Actually Protect Your APIs (And Where the Gaps Are)

Introduction Quick answer: No single tool secures an API. API security is a layered discipline. Secure-coding analyzers and SCA scanners catch code and dependency flaws; DAST tests running APIs; API gateways and IAM enforce authentication and rate limits; a WAF blocks known attack patterns; bot...

CVE-2025-54068 Laravel Livewire Credential Theft Campaign: 6,000+ Applications Compromised

Introduction On May 24, 2026, Imperva observed exploitation attempts against Laravel Livewire applications, blocked by the Imperva Cloud WAF. What initially appeared to be unremarkable deserialization attack traffic turned out to be part of a large-scale credential theft operation exploiting...

On-Premises API Security on Kubernetes: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice

Let’s Talk About Where Your APIs Actually Run Quick answer: On-premises API security keeps API discovery, detection, and enforcement inside your own perimeter instead of a third-party cloud—the model regulated industries need. Deploying it natively on Kubernetes sidecar sensors → a discovery...

Your Security Operations Team Just Got Faster: Meet Imperva’s AI Assistant.

There is a moment every security analyst knows well. It’s 2am , an alert fires, and you’re staring at a console trying to make sense of what just happened—fast. You need context, scope, and impact: What’s being targeted? Where is it coming from? Is it getting worse? What should we do next? That...

Best WAAP Solutions for Enterprise Application Security: How to Choose the Right Platform in 2026

Key Takeaways The major enterprise WAAP solutions evaluated in this guide are Akamai, Cloudflare, F5, Fastly, Fortinet, Imperva, and Radware. In the most recent independent benchmarks, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Imperva were named Leaders in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1...

Compromise OpenClaw with Prompt Injections in Message Objects

Executive Summary As powerful personal AI assistants become increasingly widespread, their ability to access tools, files, and external services also makes them susceptible to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content can manipulate their behavior. This research evaluated OpenClaw against...

The Clock Is Already Ticking: Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Can’t Wait

There is a question I have been hearing more and more from CISOs, compliance officers, and security architects over the past year. It does not start with "we had a breach" or "we failed an audit." It starts with something that sounds almost philosophical: " Are we quantum-safe?" A year ago, that...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-49975 (HTTP/2 Bomb) DoS

TL;DR: CVE-2026-49975, dubbed the “HTTP/2 Bomb,” is a critical remote Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability affecting default HTTP/2 configurations of major web servers including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. Discovered by security firm Calif using OpenAI’s Code...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-45247 in Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer for Magento

TL;DR: CVE-2026-45247 is a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer for Magento 2. The flaw stems from unsafe PHP deserialization of attacker-controlled data supplied through the CacheWarmer cookie. Successful exploitation can allo...

Real-Time Webhook Notifications: No More Lost Security Alerts

Every security team knows the pain: a critical alert lands in someone’s inbox, buried under dozens of other emails, or filtered out by a spam rule. By the time anyone sees it, the incident is already in full swing—no ticket opened, no Slack message sent, no automated workflow triggered. The...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-9082 in Drupal Core

TL;DR:CVE-2026-9082 is a highly critical SQL injection vulnerability in Drupal core that can be exploited by unauthenticated users against Drupal sites using PostgreSQL. The vulnerability affects Drupal’s database abstraction API and can allow specially crafted requests to trigger arbitrary SQL...

Dify: When Your AI Platform Becomes the Attack Surface

Executive Summary We identified a couple of vulnerabilities in AI automation platform Dify resulting in cross-tenant sensitive information disclosure and one-click account takeover. These findings reinforce the pattern we documented in our previous n8n blogpost: even though AI automation platform...

CVE-2026-42945: Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical NGINX Rewrite Module Vulnerability

TL;DR: Researchers recently disclosed CVE-2026-42945, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting both NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. The flaw exists within the ngxhttprewritemodule component and can allow unauthenticated attackers to trigger denial-of-service conditions and...

Using Bedrock with Claude Code? Your AWS Credentials Are Shared With Every Subprocess

Many developers today are using Claude Code, with a growing portion running it through Amazon Bedrock. For enterprise teams, Bedrock offers major advantages: keeping data inside a VPC, leveraging AWS credits, and integrating with existing IAM controls, monitoring, and security policies. Bedrock...

Why AI Agents Make API Security a CISO Priority

AI agents are not a future concern. They are already changing how enterprise systems are accessed, automated, and abused. And the security implication is clear: the more autonomous systems rely on APIs, the more important it becomes to know exactly which APIs exist, how they are being used, and...

CVE-2026-23870: Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical React Server Components DoS Vulnerability

TL;DR:A newly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability, CVE-2026-23870, impacts React Server Components and dependent frameworks, including Next.js App Router deployments. The flaw enables unauthenticated attackers to send specially crafted HTTP requests that trigger excessive CPU consumption...

Your Redis Server Looks Fine. That’s the Problem.

Introduction There’s an automated attack circulating right now that breaks into unprotected Redis servers, takes over the underlying machine, and then carefully puts everything back the way it found it. It restores the database filename. It deletes the tools it used. It detaches from the...

API Security Operations: How to Move from Visibility to Measurable Risk Reduction

A five-level operating model for turning API security visibility into measurable risk reduction, faster remediation, and confident digital growth — without slowing development. What is API security operationalization? API security operationalization is the process of converting API discovery and...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel & WHM

What is CVE-2026-41940? CVE-2026-41940 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM, including DNSOnly, in versions after 11.40. The flaw, discovered by WatchTowr Labs, exists in the login flow and allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to...

Bad Bot Report 2026: The Internet Is No Longer Human and It’s Changing How Business Works

For decades, companies have operated on a simple assumption that most internet traffic came from people. That assumption no longer holds. The latest 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age reinforces a shift that is now impossible to ignore. Automated traffic continues to outpace human...

Why PoP Count Isn’t the Real Measure of Application Security Performance

When evaluating cloud security platforms, one question comes up again and again: “How many Points of Presence do you have?” At first glance, the logic seems sound. More locations should mean lower latency, faster response times, and better protection. The assumption is simple: if security is...

Hacking Safari with GPT 5.4

When Anthropic unveiled Mythos and Project Glasswing, the reaction was immediate and polarized. Some dismissed it as fear-driven marketing, while others treated it as a credible shift in the threat landscape. Like with many things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I wanted to test...

Enterprise-Grade Application Security, Cloud-Native Speed: Introducing Imperva for Google Cloud

In today’s dynamic digital environment, the pressure to innovate has never been greater. Development teams are pushing for native cloud tools to maximize performance and cost-efficiency, while security teams require best-of-breed, enterprise-grade protection to defend against an ever-evolving...

Anthropic Mythos: Separating Signal from Hype

The recent buzz around Anthropic’s Mythos model has been intense, and for good reason. Early reports suggest a model that significantly advances automated reasoning over large codebases, vulnerability discovery, and exploit generation. Some are already calling it a “game changer” for offensive...

React2DoS (CVE-2026-23869): When the Flight Protocol Crashes at Takeoff

Executive Summary In this article, we disclose a new high severity unauthenticated remote denial‑of‑service vulnerability we identified and reported in React Server Components that we’ve dubbed “React2DoS”. In this blog, we’ll analyze its impact and place it in the broader context of recently fou...

Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security

AI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application...

API Security for AI Agents: Why Protection Has Never Been More Important.

For years, a lot of risky APIs survived simply because they were hard to find. They weren’t documented. Only a handful of engineers knew the endpoints. And if an attacker wanted to abuse them, they had to spend real time reverse‑engineering traffic and guessing how things worked. That “security b...

Securing Applications Anywhere: Breaking Down the Wall of Confusion

Application development has changed dramatically. Enterprises now release software faster, operate more digital services, and deploy applications across a mix of public cloud, private cloud, APIs, containers, and on-premises infrastructure. As application delivery has accelerated and architecture...

Why Most DDoS Protection Fails: Solving for Continuity and Resilience

Most organisations assume DDoS Distributed denial of service protection is a box they’ve already ticked. If traffic spikes or an attack starts, the thinking goes, their provider will absorb it and move on. But in the real world it can be a different story. Many incidents aren’t caused by the scal...

When your DDoS mitigation provider goes down: Why traffic control can’t be outsourced

Since the headline-grabbing outages of 2021, we’ve had recurring conversations with large enterprises asking some version of the same question. Do we really want our CDN, security, and routing control to live in the same place? This issue of control has become more urgent after a series of...

N8N: Shared Credentials and Account Takeover

Executive Summary We identified a security weakness in n8n’s credential management layer that could have completely compromised the application’s security. This finding highlights the core risks of centralized authentication in workflow automation platforms. As n8n serves as the central hub...

Integrating Advanced API Security with Imperva Gateway Environment

As APIs power the majority of modern web applications, implementing robust API security is no longer optional - it’s a critical necessity for data protection. This guide explores how to seamlessly integrate API gateway security into your Imperva on-premises environment to mitigate OWASP Top 10...

Cloud Based WAF Upload Scan and Control: The New Standard for File Upload Security

We're excited to announce the launch of Upload Scan and Control, an essential new feature for Imperva Cloud WAF. This add-on tackles one of the most critical vulnerabilities facing web applications today—insecure file uploads—offering protection with scalability, simplicity, and enterprise-grade...

A New Denial-of-Service Vector in React Server Components

React Server Components RSC have introduced a hybrid execution model that expands application capabilities while increasing the potential attack surface. Following earlier disclosures and fixes related to React DoS vulnerabilities, an additional analysis of RSC internals was conducted to assess...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-21962 in Oracle HTTP and WebLogic

What Is CVE-2026-21962? CVE-2026-21962 is a critical CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in the Oracle HTTP Server and the WebLogic Server Proxy Plug-in for Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft IIS. An unauthenticated attacker with HTTP access can exploit this flaw by sending crafted requests to the affected pro...

Black Friday 2025 in Review: What Retailers Need to Know About This Year’s Holiday Shopping Season

Holiday shopping season is in full swing, and Black Friday 2025 continued to demonstrate that consumer demand and attacker activity shows no signs of slowing. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, setting a new record and highlighting sustained...

Security by Design: Why Multi-Factor Authentication Matters More Than Ever

In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and evolving risk landscapes, organisations face mounting pressure to strengthen their security posture whilst maintaining seamless user experiences. At Thales, we recognise that robust security must be foundational - embedded into products and service...