Authentication Bypass
Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin
Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. Burst Statistics is a privacy-focused analytics plugin active on 200,000 WordPress sites and marketed as a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8181, was introduced on April 23 with the release of […]
Cisco warns of new critical SD-WAN flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
Cisco is warning that a critical Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks that allowed attackers to gain administrative privileges on compromised devices. CVE-2026-20182 has a maximum severity of 10.0 and impacts Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager in on-prem and SD-WAN Cloud deployments. In an […]
Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool
Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say that a zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web administration tool was likely generated using AI. The exploit could be leveraged to bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) protection in a popular open-source, web-based system administration tool that remains unnamed. Although the attack was foiled before the mass exploitation […]
Progress warns of critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass flaw
Progress Software warned customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in its MOVEit Automation enterprise-grade managed file transfer (MFT) application. MOVEit Automation automates complex data workflows without requiring manual scripting and serves as a central automation orchestrator to schedule and manage file transfers between different systems, including local servers, cloud storage, and external partners. […]
Critical cPanel and WHM bug exploited as a zero-day, PoC now available
The critical CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared is being actively exploited in the wild and has been leveraged in attempts since late February. It is unclear when exploitation started, but KnownHost, a hosting provider that uses cPanel, said the day the vulnerability was disclosed that “successful exploits have been seen […]
Hackers exploit RCE flaws in Qinglong task scheduler for cryptomining
Hackers are exploiting two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the Qinglong open-source task scheduling tool to deploy cryptominers on developers’ servers. Exploitation started in early February, before the security issues were disclosed publicly at the end of the month, according to researchers at cloud-native application security company Snyk. Qinglong is a self-hosted open-source time management platform […]
cPanel, WHM emergency update fixes critical auth bypass bug
A critical vulnerability affecting all but the latest versions of cPanel and the WebHost Manager (WHM) dashboard could be exploited to obtain access to the control panel without authentication. The security issue, currently identified as CVE-2026-41940 and with a severity score of 9.8, has been addressed in an emergency update that requires running a command manually to retrieve […]
Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild
A critical vulnerability in Nginx UI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now being exploited in the wild for full server takeover without authentication. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33032, is caused by nginx-ui leaving the ‘/mcp_message’ endpoint unprotected, allowing remote attackers to invoke privileged MCP actions without credentials. Because those actions involve writing and […]
Critical Cisco IMC auth bypass gives attackers Admin access
Cisco has released security updates to address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including an Integrated Management Controller (IMC) authentication bypass that allows attackers to gain Admin access. Also known as CIMC, Cisco IMC is a hardware module embedded on the motherboard of Cisco servers that provides out-of-band management (even if the operating system is powered off or crashed) for UCS […]
TP-Link warns users to patch critical router auth bypass flaw
TP-Link has patched several vulnerabilities in its Archer NX router series, including a critical-severity flaw that may allow attackers to bypass authentication and upload new firmware. Tracked as CVE-2025-15517, this security flaw affects Archer NX200, NX210, NX500, and NX600 wireless routers and stems from a missing authentication weakness that attackers can exploit without privileges. “A missing […]