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What Would a Government Shutdown Mean for Cybersecurity?

Companies are advised to act now to protect networks while federal employee paychecks are still forthcoming. Public agencies are updating contingency plans before the November extension ends, while cyber stalkers get an extra month to plan, too.

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CVE-2023-46076: WordPress WooCommerce PDF Invoice Builder plugin <= 1.2.102 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - Patchstack

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in RedNao WooCommerce PDF Invoice Builder, Create invoices, packing slips and more plugin <= 1.2.102 versions.

GHSA-xwcq-pm8m-c4vf: crypto-js PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard

Maintainer: please click 'request CVE' when accepting this report so that upstream fixes of this vulnerability can be tracked. **Thank you for your hard work maintaining this package.** ### Impact #### Summary Crypto-js PBKDF2 is 1,000 times weaker than originally specified in 1993, and [at least 1,300,000 times weaker than current industry standard][OWASP PBKDF2 Cheatsheet]. This is because it both (1) defaults to [SHA1][SHA1 wiki], a cryptographic hash algorithm considered insecure [since at least 2005][Cryptanalysis of SHA-1] and (2) defaults to [one single iteration][one iteration src], a 'strength' or 'difficulty' value specified at 1,000 when specified in 1993. PBKDF2 relies on iteration count as a countermeasure to [preimage][preimage attack] and [collision][collision attack] attacks. Potential Impact: 1. If used to protect passwords, the impact is high. 2. If used to generate signatures, the impact is high. Probability / risk analysis / attack enumeration: 1. [For at most ...

GHSA-mpj8-q39x-wq5h: crypto-es PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard

Maintainer: please click 'request CVE' when accepting this report so that upstream fixes of this vulnerability can be tracked. **Thank you for your hard work maintaining this package.** ### Impact #### Summary Crypto-js PBKDF2 is 1,000 times weaker than originally specified in 1993, and [at least 1,300,000 times weaker than current industry standard][OWASP PBKDF2 Cheatsheet]. This is because it both (1) defaults to [SHA1][SHA1 wiki], a cryptographic hash algorithm considered insecure [since at least 2005][Cryptanalysis of SHA-1] and (2) defaults to [one single iteration][one iteration src], a 'strength' or 'difficulty' value specified at 1,000 when specified in 1993. PBKDF2 relies on iteration count as a countermeasure to [preimage][preimage attack] and [collision][collision attack] attacks. Remediation of this issue might be very difficult, as the changes required to fix this issue would change the output of this method and thus break most, if not all, current uses of this method as ...

CVE-2023-5110: category-dropdown.php in bsk-pdf-manager/trunk/classes/shortcodes/category – WordPress Plugin Repository

The BSK PDF Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'bsk-pdfm-category-dropdown' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVE-2023-45646: WordPress PDF Block plugin <= 1.1.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - Patchstack

Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Henryholtgeerts PDF Block plugin <= 1.1.0 versions.

CVE-2022-38484

An arbitrary file upload and directory traversal vulnerability exist in the file upload functionality of the System Setup menu in AgeVolt Portal prior to version 0.1. A remote authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to upload files to any location on the target operating system with web server privileges.

CVE-2022-38485

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the AgeVolt Portal prior to version 0.1 that leads to Information Disclosure. A remote authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to read files from any location on the target operating system with web server privileges.

CVE-2023-25032: WordPress Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly plugin <= 5.5.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - Patchstack

Auth. (admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly plugin <= 5.5.1 versions.

Database Mess Up: 7TB of Healthcare Data Leak Affects 12 Million Patients

By Deeba Ahmed Yet another day, more unprotected data left in the Cloud without password or security measures. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Database Mess Up: 7TB of Healthcare Data Leak Affects 12 Million Patients