XSS

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2019
Expert awarded $10,000 for a new XSS flaw in Yahoo Mail

A security expert discovered a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in Yahoo Mail that could have been exploited to steal the targeted user’s emails and attach malicious code to their outgoing messages. Yahoo addressed a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Yahoo Mail that could have been exploited by hackers to steal user’s emails and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2019
Adobe fixed XSS flaws in Experience Manager that can result in information Disclosure

Adobe released security updates to address multiple XSS vulnerabilities in the Experience Manager and Experience Manager Forms that can lead to information disclosure. Adobe released security updates for the Experience Manager and Experience Manager Forms to address flaws that can lead to information disclosure. The Experience Manager is affected by a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) issue […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2019
Multiple Fortnite flaws allowed experts to takeover players’ accounts

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered several flaws in the popular game Fortnite that could be exploited to takeover gamers’account. Security experts at Check Point discovered several issues in the popular online battle game Fortnite. One of the flaws is an OAuth account takeover vulnerability that could have allowed a remote attacker to takeover […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2018
Critical unfixed flaws affect ABB Safety PLC Gateways

Researchers at Applied Risk discovered serious flaws in some PLC gateways manufactured by industrial tech company ABB. Security experts at Applied Risk are affected by potentially serious flaws and the bad news is that the vendor will not release firmware updates because the impacted products have reached the end of life. The security firm published a security advisory that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2018
WordPress version 5.0.1 addressed several vulnerabilities

This week, the WordPress development team released on Thursday the version 5.0.1 of the popular CMS, that addresses several flaws. The Researcher Tim Coen discovered several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the CMS. One of the flaws is caused by the ability of contributors to edit new comments from users with higher privileges. Coen also discovered that it […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2018
XSS flaw in Evernote allows attackers to execute commands and steal files

Security expert discovered a stored XSS flaw in the Evernote app for Windows that could be exploited to steal files and execute arbitrary commands. A security expert that goes online with the moniker @sebao has discovered a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote application for Windows that could be exploited by an attacker to steal files and execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2018
Splunk addressed several vulnerabilities in Enterprise and Light products

Splunk recently addressed several vulnerabilities in Enterprise and Light products, some of them have been rated “high severity.” Splunk Enterprise solution allows organizations to aggregate, search, analyze, and visualize data from various sources that are critical to business operations. The Splunk Light is a comprehensive solution for small IT environments that automates log analysis and integrate […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2018
Branch.io Flaws may have affected as many as 685 million individuals

More than 685 million users may have been exposed to XSS attacks due to a flaw in Branch.io service used by Tinder, Shopify, and many others. Security Affairs was the first to publish the news of a DOM-XSS Bug Affecting Tinder, Shopify, Yelp, and other dating application. The flaws were disclosed a few days ago by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2018
Juniper Networks provides dozens of fix for vulnerabilities in Junos OS

Juniper Networks has released security updates to address serious vulnerabilities affecting the Junos operating system. This week, Juniper Networks has patched dozens of serious security provided security patches for each of them, the security advisories are available on the company website. The most severe flaw is probably the  CVE-2018-0049, which could be exploited by an attacker to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2018
D-Link fixed several flaws in Central WiFiManager access point management tool

D-Link addresses several remote code execution and XSS vulnerabilities affecting the Central WiFiManager access point management tool. D-Link issued security patches to address several remote code execution and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting the Central WiFiManager access point management tool. The vulnerabilities have been reported by researchers at SecureAuth/CoreSecurity D-Link Central WiFiManager software controller helps network […]