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WordPress security company Wordfence on Thursday said it started detecting exploitation attempts targeting the newly disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text on October 18, 2022. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889 aka Text4Shell, has been assigned a severity ranking of 9.8 out of a possible 10.0 on the CVSS scale and affects versions 1.5 through 1.9 of the library. It's also similar to

SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Deserialization of Untrusted Data. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with Orion admin-level account access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands.

SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Deserialization of Untrusted Data. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with Orion admin-level account access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands.

Chamilo 1.11.16 is affected by an authenticated local file inclusion vulnerability which allows authenticated users with access to 'big file uploads' to copy/move files from anywhere in the file system into the web directory.

Auth. (admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mammothology AB Press Optimizer plugin <= 1.1.1 on WordPress.

A flaw was found in Wordpress 5.1. "X-Forwarded-For" is a HTTP header used to carry the client's original IP address. However, because these headers may very well be added by the client to the requests, if the systems/devices use IP addresses which decelerate at X-Forwarded-For header instead of original IP, various issues may be faced. If the data originating from these fields is trusted by the application developers and processed, any authorization checks originating IP address logging could be manipulated.

WordPress Photo Gallery plugin version 1.8.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

The Import all XML, CSV & TXT WordPress plugin before 6.5.8 does not properly sanitise and escape imported data before using them back SQL statements, leading to SQL injection exploitable by high privilege users such as admin

The Passster WordPress plugin before 3.5.5.5.2 stores the password inside a cookie named "passster" using base64 encoding method which is easy to decode. This puts the password at risk in case the cookies get leaked.

The WP Custom Cursors WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 does not have CSRF check in place when deleting cursors, which could allow attackers to made a logged in admin delete arbitrary cursors via a CSRF attack.