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The wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing authorization check on the userRate function in versions up to, and including, 7.6.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to increase or decrease the rating of a post.

The Theme Switcha plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'theme_switcha_list' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

By Deeba Ahmed It is unclear how long Cisco will take to release a patch. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cisco Web UI Vulnerability Exploited Massly, Impacting Over 40K Devices

Categories: Business Categories: News Tags: IT administrators Tags: admin Tags: password Tags: qwerty Tags: 123456 Are IT administrators any better at coming up with decent passwords? Research says they aren't. (Read more...) The post IT administrators' passwords are awful too appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Without the proper context, organizations waste time mitigating software flaws that won't likely affect their systems.

Terminal character injection in Mintty before 3.6.3 allows code execution via unescaped output to the terminal.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6435-1 - It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled excessively large Diffie-Hellman parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Bernd Edlinger discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled excessively large Diffie-Hellman parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers report a surge in QR code-related cyberattacks exploiting phishing and malware distribution, especially QRLJacking and Quishing attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Exploit QR Codes with QRLJacking for Malware Distribution

The AI ChatBot for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 4.8.9 via the qcld_openai_upload_pagetraining_file function. This allows subscriber-level attackers to append "<?php" to any existing file on the server resulting in potential DoS when appended to critical files such as wp-config.php.