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### Impact Due to a bug in Red's Core API, 3rd-party cogs using the [`@commands.can_manage_channel()`](https://docs.discord.red/en/stable/framework_checks.html#redbot.core.commands.can_manage_channel) command permission check without additional permission controls may authorize a user to run a command even when that user doesn't have permissions to manage a channel. None of the core commands or core cogs are affected. The maintainers of the project are not aware of any _public_ 3rd-party cog utilizing this API at the time of writing this advisory. The [`@commands.mod_or_can_manage_channel()`](https://docs.discord.red/en/stable/framework_checks.html#redbot.core.commands.mod_or_can_manage_channel), [`@commands.admin_or_can_manage_channel()`](https://docs.discord.red/en/stable/framework_checks.html#redbot.core.commands.admin_or_can_manage_channel), and [`@commands.guildowner_or_can_manage_channel()`](https://docs.discord.red/en/stable/framework_checks.html#redbot.core.commands.guildowne...

The cybercrime boss, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang and was on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for years, has been sentenced to 18 years and ordered to pay more than $73 million.

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to address five security flaws impacting its products, including a critical bug that could lead to an authentication bypass. Cataloged as CVE-2024-5910 (CVSS score: 9.3), the vulnerability has been described as a case of missing authentication in its Expedition migration tool that could lead to an admin account takeover. "Missing authentication

This Metasploit module exploits an authenticated administrator-level vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence, tracked as CVE-2024-21683. The vulnerability exists due to the Rhino script engine parser evaluating tainted data from uploaded text files. This facilitates arbitrary code execution. This exploit will authenticate, validate user privileges, extract the underlying host OS information, then trigger remote code execution. All versions of Confluence prior to 7.17 are affected, as are many versions up to 8.9.0.

LumisXP versions 15.0.x through 16.1.x suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability in XsltResultControllerHtml.jsp.

LumisXP versions 15.0.x through 16.1.x suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability in UrlAccessibilityEvaluation.jsp.

LumisXP versions 15.0.x through 16.1.x suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability in main.jsp

LumisXP versions 15.0.x through 16.1.x have a hardcoded privileged identifier that allows attackers to bypass authentication and access internal pages and other sensitive information.

WordPress Poll Maker plugin version 5.3.2 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6891-1 - It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that Python incorrectly used regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.