vulnerability
Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-27540 and impacts plugin versions 2.0.3.1 and older. It is an unauthenticated arbitrary file-upload vulnerability discovered by security researcher Teemu Saarentaus. An attacker can exploit it to upload […]
Japan’s Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records
Japan’s Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees. The agency says that the attacker gained initial access by exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN device used by the Government Solution Service (GSS). An investigation started on June 25, after the agency […]
Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent
The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103. Although no public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been reported, the agency is urging organizations to install the security updates addressing the two issues as soon as possible. “The NCSC assesses […]
Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware
Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. A new report from cloud security company Wiz confirmed exploitation across multiple environments, including an exploit chain that combines CVE-2026-42018 and CVE-2026-42016. The third vulnerability is CVE-2026-82329, a critical […]
GitLab urges users to patch max severity path traversal flaw
GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. The security flaw, discovered by a security researcher using the ‘s3ntago‘ handle and reported via GitLab’s HackerOne bug bounty program, stems from improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API. Unauthenticated attackers can […]
Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 Secure FMC flaw exploited in attacks
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability has a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute scripts and commands as root on vulnerable devices. “In August […]
Skullcandy Dime 3 earbuds expose users to Bluetooth hijacking
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is warning that Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds accept Bluetooth pairing requests from nearby unpaired devices without requiring user interaction. Devices running firmware version 1.0.0.28 are affected by a high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-20701 in the Airoha Bluetooth Audio SDK, which the Skullcandy Dime 3 (model S2DCW) […]
Over 36,000 exposed Plex servers vulnerable to recent flaws
Over 36,000 Plex Media servers exposed online remain unpatched against multiple security vulnerabilities and are vulnerable to attacks. Plex urged users a week ago to secure their media servers immediately against security issues that still lack CVE IDs for easy tracking. While the company didn’t provide additional details on Tuesday when it issued the warning, these security […]
Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 966 flaws, 2 zero-days
Today is Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates released for a record-breaking 966 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday addresses 105 “Critical” vulnerabilities, 81 of which are remote code execution, 20 are elevation of privileges, 2 are information disclosure, and 1 security feature bypass. The approximate number of bugs in […]
Magento StyleSmuggler zero-day exploited to deploy Linux backdoor
A zero-day vulnerability dubbed “StyleSmuggler” affecting all versions of Magento and Adobe Commerce is being exploited in attacks to deploy a backdoor. The first exploitation incident was recorded on September 4 on a target running the latest security updates. E-commerce security company Sansec says that Adobe Enterprise Support confirmed earlier today that it was working […]