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The threat actor known as Arid Viper (aka APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, or TAG-63) has been attributed as behind an Android spyware campaign targeting Arabic-speaking users with a counterfeit dating app designed to harvest data from infected handsets. "Arid Viper's Android malware has a number of features that enable the operators to surreptitiously collect sensitive information from victims' devices

The Popup box WordPress plugin before 3.7.2 does not sanitize and escape some Popup fields, which could allow high-privilege users such as an administrator to inject arbitrary web scripts even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

The WordPress File Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 2.0.5 does not check authorization before displaying files and folders, allowing users to gain access to those filed by manipulating IDs which can easily be brute forced

The Memberlite Shortcodes WordPress plugin before 1.3.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

The EventPrime WordPress plugin before 3.2.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to an HTML Injection on the plugin in the search area of the website.

The CITS Support svg, webp Media and TTF,OTF File Upload WordPress plugin before 3.0 does not sanitise uploaded SVG files, which could allow users with a role as low as Author to upload a malicious SVG containing XSS payloads.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-23 - Several use-after-free vulnerabilities have been found in libxslt. Versions greater than or equal to 1.1.35 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-22 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation. Versions greater than or equal to 3004.2 are affected.

The Live updates from Excel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ipushpull_page' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-21 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ConnMan, the worst of which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 1.42_pre20220801 are affected.