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XSS Attack Explained: How Cross-Site Scripting Works
An XSS attack lets an attacker run their JavaScript in your users' browsers. Here is how cross-site scripting works, the three types, and how to stop it.
Feb 17, 20267 min read
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Apache Struts 2 Vulnerabilities: A History Worth Knowing
Apache Struts 2 has produced some of the most damaging vulnerabilities in web application history, including the flaw behind the Equifax breach. Here's what happened and why it keeps happening.
Feb 17, 20265 min read
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CVE-2023-4807: The OpenSSL POLY1305 Flaw on Windows
A cryptographic MAC that silently trashes CPU registers: why CVE-2023-4807 only bites Windows builds of OpenSSL, what it can actually do, and which releases fix it.
Feb 15, 20265 min read
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jQuery 1.10.2 Vulnerabilities: Should You Still Worry?
jQuery 1.10.2, released in 2013, predates the fixes for three well-documented CVEs — CVE-2015-9251, CVE-2019-11358, and CVE-2020-11022/11023 — which means yes, it's genuinely still worth worrying about.
Feb 14, 20266 min read
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Nginx 1.20.1 Vulnerabilities: What to Patch
Nginx 1.20.1 fixed a real, exploitable DNS resolver bug — if you're still running an older 1.20.x or 1.19.x build, here's what the fix addressed and why it matters.
Feb 14, 20264 min read
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Notable CVEs of 2022: A Practitioner's Roundup
CVE-2022-31160 and a run of recursion-based denial-of-service bugs made 2022 a year defined less by exotic exploits and more by parsers that never expected deeply nested input.
Feb 13, 20265 min read
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The Spring Shell Vulnerability: What Happened
Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) let attackers achieve remote code execution through Spring's data-binding mechanism — here's what made it exploitable and what actually needed patching.
Feb 12, 20264 min read
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Notable CVEs of 2023: A Practitioner's Roundup
From an OpenSSL IV-truncation flaw to a critical Babel code-execution bug, 2023's CVE crop is a good reminder that severity and blast radius don't always line up.
Feb 12, 20266 min read
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libwebp and CVE-2023-4863: The Full Story
A heap buffer overflow in libwebp's lossless decoder, exploited in the wild before a patch existed, turned out to affect far more software than the browser it was first reported in.
Feb 12, 20265 min read
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