Alerts
Critical IPhone SMS Vulnerability
Apple is releasing a critical patch on Saturday to address a recent vulnerability that was demonstrated at the infamous Blackhat hacking conference.
Charlie Miller, a consultant with Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin Mulliner, a PhD student at the Technical University of Berlin, presented the details of the vulnerability at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las [...]
Old WP-Forum Vulnerability Gets Disclosed
An vulnerability for Fredrik Fahlstad’s WP-Forum Plugin has been made public on milw0rm. The exploit appears to affect an older version (1.7.8) of the popular WordPress plugin.
The plugins homepage is already on version 2.2. This means this vulnerability was probably discovered shortly after the initial version 1.7.4 vulnerability reported by BlogSecurity in early 2008.
As [...]
WordPress 2.6.2 Snoopy Vulnerability
WordPress announced the following vulnerability in WordPress 2.6.2:
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If [...]
st_newsletter SQL Injection
The st_newsletter Plugin is once again vulnerable to SQL Injection.
The hole is located within the page stnl_iframe.php, the parameter newsletter is missing correct sanitisation and so the plugin is prone to this attack. Currently we’re not aware about any fixes, users should disable the Plugin in the meantime, or should fix the problem their self. [...]
Wordpress-MU Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Product: Wordpress-MU (multi-user)
Version: Versions prior to 2.6 are affected
Credits: Juan Galiana
Juan Galiana has published the advisory to Bugtraq this week which includes a proof of concept exploit.
Wordpress-MU is affected by a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability, an attacker can perform an XSS attack that allows him to access the
targeted user cookies to gain administrator privileges
In [...]
