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By Owais Sultan Boost user engagement and SEO ranking with these key web development practices for media sites. Discover responsive design, page speed optimization, user-friendly CMS, SEO structure, and accessibility best practices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Best Practices for Optimizing Web Development Standards for Media Sites

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The Dusk plugin provides some special routes as part of its testing framework to allow a browser environment (such as headless Chrome) to act as a user in the Backend or User plugin without having to go through authentication. This route is `[[URL]]/_dusk/login/[[USER ID]]/[[MANAGER]]` - where `[[URL]]` is the base URL of the site, `[[USER ID]]` is the ID of the user account and `[[MANAGER]]` is the authentication manager (either `backend` for Backend, or `user` for the User plugin). If a configuration of a site using the Dusk plugin is set up in such a way that the Dusk plugin is available publicly and the test cases in Dusk are run with live data, this route may potentially be used to gain access to any user account in either the Backend or User plugin without authentication. As indicated in the [README](https://github.com/wintercms/wn-dusk-plugin/blob/main/README.md), this plugin should only be used in development and should *NOT* be used in a production instance. It is specifical...

NiceGUI is an easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework. A local file inclusion is present in the NiceUI leaflet component when requesting resource files under the `/_nicegui/{__version__}/resources/{key}/{path:path}` route. As a result any file on the backend filesystem which the web server has access to can be read by an attacker with access to the NiceUI leaflet website. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 1.4.21. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Akamai joins a growing list of security vendors aiming to strengthen companies' DNS defenses.

Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and it has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data.

By Waqas Cybercriminals using deepfakes to target businesses! LastPass narrowly avoids security breach after employee identifies fake CEO in WhatsApp call. Read how LastPass is urging awareness against evolving social engineering tactics. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LastPass Dodges Deepfake Scam: CEO Impersonation Attempt Thwarted

### Summary Timber is vulnerable to [PHAR deserialization](https://portswigger.net/web-security/deserialization/exploiting#phar-deserialization) due to a lack of checking the input before passing it into the` file_exists()` function. If an attacker can upload files of any type to the server, he can pass in the `phar://` protocol to unserialize the uploaded file and instantiate arbitrary PHP objects. This can lead to remote code execution especially when Timber is used with frameworks with documented POP chains like Wordpress/ vulnerable developer code. ### Details The vulnerability lies in the run function within the `toJpg.php` file. The two parameters passed into it are not checked or sanitized, hence an attacker could potentially inject malicious input leading to Deserialization of Untrusted Data, allowing for remote code execution:  ### PoC Setup the following code in `/var/www/html`: `...

WordPress Playlist for Youtube plugin version 1.32 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.

MinIO versions prior to 2024-01-31T20-20-33Z suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.