0-Day Flaws in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites

A security researcher has publicly disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums, an open source software that powers discussion on over 500,000 websites, which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to fully compromise targe… Continue reading 0-Day Flaws in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites

Critical Updates — RCE Flaws Found in SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail

A security researcher recently reported a critical vulnerability in one of the most popular open source PHP libraries used to send emails that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the web server and compromise a web app… Continue reading Critical Updates — RCE Flaws Found in SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail

PHPMailer Bug Leaves Millions of Websites Open to Attack

A critical PHPMailer bug tied to the way websites handle email and feedback forms is leaving millions of websites hosted on popular web-publishing platforms such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla open to attack. Continue reading PHPMailer Bug Leaves Millions of Websites Open to Attack

Critical PHPMailer Flaw leaves Millions of Websites Vulnerable to Remote Exploit

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in PHPMailer, which is one of the most popular open source PHP libraries to send emails used by more than 9 Million users worldwide.

Millions of PHP websites and popular open source web applications, includ… Continue reading Critical PHPMailer Flaw leaves Millions of Websites Vulnerable to Remote Exploit

Santa Knows If Your Contact Form Uses PHPMailer < 5.2.18

PHPMailer, one of the most used classes for sending emails from within PHP, has a serious vulnerability in versions less than 5.2.18 (current version). The security researcher [Dawid Golunski] just published a limited advisory stating that PHPMailer suffers from a critical flaw that might lead an attacker to achieve remote code execution in the context of the web server user. PHPMailer is used by several open-source projects, among them are: WordPress, Drupal, 1CRM, SugarCRM, Yii and Joomla. A fix has been issued and PHPMailer is urging all users to upgrade their systems.

To trigger this vulnerability (CVE-2016-10033) it seems that …read more

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