Tag: flaw
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WordPress XSS2Shell Flaw Turns Simple Login Bug Into Full Server Takeover
WordPress XSS2Shell flaw enables admin takeover and remote code execution. Users should update to patched versions. Researchers at Pwn just published a report on a vulnerability chain they’re calling XSS2Shell, and the entry point is quite simple: type a username that doesn’t exist, and WordPress echoes it back with a tiny formatting flaw baked into…
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AI Agents, Supply Chain Attacks, and Critical Flaws Define the Week in August 2026
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters for August 2026, including Def Con and Black Hat conference coverage First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-agents-supply-chain-attacks-and-critical-flaws-define-the-week-in-august-2026/
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More than half of AI-generated patches are broken
Research finds your AI generated security patch is more likely to fail than fully fix a vulnerability. It might even introduce brand new flaws to exploit along the way. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-code-patching-security-risks/
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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Critical flaws allow hackers to exploit zero-touch provisioning process in TP-Link Omada
Attacks can cause widespread damage to trusted devices and data.; First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-flaws-allow-hackers-to-exploit-zero-touch-provisioning-process-in/827306/
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New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution – Patch ASAP
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. Under additional conditions, the bug can be chained into PHP code execution on the server.Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the High-severity vulnerability requires no attacker privileges. According to pwn.ai, First seen…
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Agentic AI for Cyber Defenders: What Security Teams Built at Black Hat USA 2026
Tags: ai, automation, conference, control, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, flaw, group, iam, intelligence, ISO-27001, mitigation, network, nvidia, offense, open-source, RedTeam, risk, skills, soc, technology, threat, tool, usa, vulnerabilityAgentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event. Key takeaways Building defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer. Agentic tooling drove…
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18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers
A use-after-free bug in Linux’s SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath.The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone…
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Google Chrome 151 Update Fixes 41 Security Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Critical Flaws
Google has released Chrome version 151.0.7922.108/.109 for Windows and macOS, and version 151.0.7922.108 for Linux. This update delivers 41 security fixes across various components of the browser, including rendering, graphics, JavaScript, user interface (UI), media, and authentication. The Stable channel update began rolling out on August 6 and will reach users over the next several…
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Claude Code RCE Flaw Lets Malicious Pull Requests Execute Code on Developer Systems
A malicious pull request has the potential to turn Claude Code’s project-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration into a trigger for code execution, which could expose developer secrets before a reviewer has a chance to evaluate the code. Anthropic reportedly aligns this behavior with its workspace trust model, establishing the security boundary at the initial…
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Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets
A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic’s and Google’s own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI’s, it was enough to hijack the next agent run.Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor’s agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default,…
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Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.9 CVSS Score Bugs
Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review.The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode.”These vulnerabilities were found First…
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Critical Flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex Enable RCE and Supply Chain Attacks
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, cyber, flaw, google, openai, rce, remote-code-execution, supply-chain, theft, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have disclosed a vulnerability affecting AI coding-agent workflows from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. Their research highlights how an attacker-controlled issue or zero-privilege input can breach trust boundaries in an agent “harness”, which includes the permissions, tools, sandbox, filesystem, and automation surrounding the model, and result in code execution, secret theft, or workflow compromise.…
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Apple’s Private Relay feature has flaws that can expose user IP addresses
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/apples-private-relay-feature-has-flaws-that-can-expose-user-ip-addresses
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Samsung’s August Update Patches 56 Security Vulnerabilities Across Galaxy Devices
Samsung’s August 2026 Galaxy update fixes 56 Android and One UI security flaws, including critical vulnerabilities and clipboard access risks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-samsung-august-2026-galaxy-security-update/
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Breach Roundup: Water Utilities in 12 US States Hit
Also, Chinese-Made SOHO Routers Contain Trojan, AI Fuels Cybercrime Across Africa. This week: water utilities in 12 U.S. states hit, Trojans in Chinese SOHO routers, banned Chinese companies in U.S. networks, AI fueled cybercrime in Africa, a U.K. police legal database breached, IBM Langflow AI flaw, a cyberattack delayed orders at a Dutch retailer and…
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AI Accelerates Financial Services Fraud
Coinbase’s Lunglhofer on Deepfakes, Supply-Chain Risk and Human Expertise. AI is helping criminals clone voices, exploit software flaws and guide fraud schemes in real time. Coinbase Chief Security Officer Jeff Lunglhofer explains why faster attacks demand AI-enabled defense backed by cybersecurity experts. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-accelerates-financial-services-fraud-a-32450
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New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts
Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests.The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86’s shadow memory management unit (MMU), which…
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Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs
Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review.The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode.”These vulnerabilities were found First…
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Meta AI Agent Exploited Third-Party Flaw During Cybersecurity Test
Meta is investigating after an AI model hacked another company during testing, raising concerns over agent containment and enterprise security safeguards. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/artificial-intelligence/news-meta-ai-agent-hack/
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Black Hat 2026: Critical Flaws Found in Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI Coding Agents
Researchers disclosed critical flaws in AI coding agents from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI that could enable credential theft, RCE, and supply chain attacks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/black-hat-2026-critical-flaws-found-in-anthropic-google-and-openai-coding-agents/
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AI code security with Claude Mythos Preview: Inside Tenable’s 500+ hours of testing for Project Glasswing
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, reverse-engineering, risk, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityWe spent 500+ hours and 40 billion tokens testing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview for Project Glasswing. The takeaway: frontier AI won’t run your code security program, but used well, it can make one even stronger. Key takeaways Frontier AI dramatically scales security testing. In one month, Tenable dedicated 11 security experts and more than 40…
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Black Hat USA: TP-Link Flaws Put Omada Controllers and Camera Feeds at Risk
Forescout disclosed 15 TP-Link flaws at Black Hat USA 2026 that could expose Omada credentials and VPN keys, allow internal access and affect VIGI camera feeds. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/black-hat-usa-tp-link-flaws-omada-credentials-camera-risk/
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Critical Paperclip AI Agent Flaws Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Critical vulnerabilities in the open-source Paperclip AI-agent orchestration platform could allow attackers to execute commands remotely on exposed servers or on a developer’s local machine. These flaws arise from broken authorization boundaries across agent imports and API routes, as well as trust assumptions for localhost. Paperclip is designed to coordinate autonomous agents across >>companies,<< with…
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Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in Reporting AI Exploit Incident
One of Meta’s AI models exploited a third-party security flaw during an evaluation, the latest in a series of similar incidents involving advanced AI systems First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/meta-ai-exploit-incident/
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Apple’s bug bounty program is drowning in so much AI slop, it is in danger of missing serious exploits
Apple has imposed strict new submission limits on its bug bounty portal after finding itself overwhelmed by low-quality, AI generated vulnerability reports – many of which were found to be describing security flaws that simply didn’t exist. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/apple-bug-bounty-ai-missing-exploits
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Critical Jenkins Deserialization Flaw Allows Attackers to Execute Code on Controllers
A critical vulnerability in Jenkins, tracked as CVE-2026-70426, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on Jenkins controllers by bypassing deserialization protections within the platform’s Remoting library. This flaw, identified as SECURITY-3911, affects Jenkins environments where agents communicate with controllers via serialized Java objects over Remoting, typically deployed as agent.jar or remoting.jar. The Java serialization…
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Black Hat USA 2026: One GitHub Issue Could Compromise Major AI Coding Workflows
At Black Hat USA 2026, Novee found GitHub workflow flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Codex that enabled RCE, credential theft and agent control in pipelines. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/black-hat-usa-2026-github-compromise-ai-coding/
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U.S. CISA adds a JetBrains TeamCity flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of July, JetBrains released security updates for TeamCity…