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Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known.

The threat actors behind the VexTrio Viper Traffic Distribution Service (TDS) have been linked to other TDS services like Help TDS and Disposable TDS, indicating that the sophisticated cybercriminal operation is a sprawling enterprise of its own that's designed to distribute malicious content. "VexTrio is a group of malicious adtech companies that distribute scams and harmful software via

**Overview** The Auth0 Wordpress plugin contains a critical vulnerability due to insecure deserialization of cookie data. If exploited, since SDKs process cookie content without prior authentication, a threat actor could send a specially crafted cookie containing malicious serialized data. **Am I Affected?** You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following preconditions: 1. Applications using the Auth0 WordPress plugin, versions between 5.0.0 BETA-0 to 5.0.1. 2. Auth0 WordPress plugin uses the Auth0-PHP SDK with version 8.0.0-BETA3 to 8.3.0. **Fix** Upgrade the Auth0 WordPress plugin to the latest version (v5.3.0).

**Overview** The Auth0 PHP SDK contains a vulnerability due to insecure deserialization of cookie data. If exploited, since SDKs process cookie content without prior authentication, a threat actor could send a specially crafted cookie containing malicious serialized data. **Am I Affected?** You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following preconditions: 1. Applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK, versions between 8.0.0-BETA3 to 8.3.0. 2. Applications using the following SDKs that rely on the Auth0-PHP SDK versions between 8.0.0-BETA3 to 8.3.0: a. Auth0/symfony, b. Auth0/laravel-auth0, c. Auth0/wordpress. **Fix** Upgrade Auth0/Auth0-PHP to 8.3.1. **Acknowledgement** Okta would like to thank Andreas Forsblom for discovering this vulnerability.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical unpatched security flaw impacting TI WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files. TI WooCommerce Wishlist, which has over 100,000 active installations, is a tool to allow e-commerce site customers to save their favorite products for later and share the lists on social

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The trove has now been taken down but included users’ logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta, plus services from multiple governments.

**Overview** Session cookies of applications using the Auth0 Wordpress plugin configured with CookieStore have authentication tags that can be brute forced, which may result in unauthorized access. **Am I Affected?** You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following pre-conditions: 1. Applications using the Auth0 WordPress Plugin with version <=5.2.1 2. Auth0 WordPress Plugin uses the Auth0-PHP SDK with version 8.0.0-BETA1 or higher and below 8.14.0. 3. Session storage configured with CookieStore. **Fix** Upgrade Auth0/wordpress plugin to v5.3.0. As an additional precautionary measure, we recommend rotating your cookie encryption keys. Note that once updated, any previous session cookies will be rejected. **Acknowledgement** Okta would like to thank Félix Charette for discovering this vulnerability.

**Overview** Session cookies of applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK configured with CookieStore have authentication tags that can be brute forced, which may result in unauthorized access. **Am I Affected?** You are affected by this vulnerability if you meet the following pre-conditions: 1. Applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK, or the following SDKs that rely on the Auth0-PHP SDK: a. Auth0/symfony, b. Auth0/laravel-auth0, c. Auth0/wordpress, 2. Session storage configured with CookieStore. **Fix** Upgrade Auth0/Auth0-PHP to v8.14.0. As an additional precautionary measure, we recommend rotating your cookie encryption keys. Note that once updated, any previous session cookies will be rejected. **Acknowledgement** Okta would like to thank Félix Charette for discovering this vulnerability.

The tarteaucitron-wp WordPress plugin before 0.3.0 allows author level and above users to add HTML into a post/page, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.