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The ActiveCampaign for WooCommerce WordPress plugin through 1.9.6 does not have authorisation check when cleaning up its error logs via an AJAX action, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and remove error logs.

The Bg Bible References WordPress plugin through 3.8.14 does not sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 5.9.3 (which is a companion plugin used with Discy and Himer WordPress themes) incorrectly tries to validate that a user already follows another in the wpqa_following_you_ajax action, allowing a user to inflate their score on the site by having another user send repeated follow actions to them.

The WPtouch WordPress plugin before 4.3.45 does not properly validate images to be uploaded, allowing high privilege users such as admin to upload arbitrary files on the server even when they should not be allowed to (for example in multisite setup)

The WPtouch WordPress plugin before 4.3.45 unserialises the content of an imported settings file, which could lead to PHP object injections issues when an user import (intentionally or not) a malicious settings file and a suitable gadget chain is present on the blog.

The Starter Templates by Kadence WP WordPress plugin before 1.2.17 unserialises the content of an imported file, which could lead to PHP object injection issues when an admin import (intentionally or not) a malicious file and a suitable gadget chain is present on the blog.

The 404 to Start WordPress plugin through 1.6.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

The threat actors behind the Kinsing cryptojacking operation have been spotted exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers to obtain initial access to Kubernetes environments. A second initial access vector technique entails the use of vulnerable images, Sunders Bruskin, security researcher at Microsoft Defender for Cloud, said in a report last week. Kinsing has a storied history of

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