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/ Posted May 27, 2015
The aheadWorks Blog extension for Magento prior to version 1.3.10 is vulnerable to a critical SQL Injection security flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take complete control of the affected Magento server and database.
With almost 80,000 downloads at the time of writing, the affected component is the most popular blog component available via Magento Connect.
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Research Security Alerts / Posted May 27, 2015
The aheadWorks Blog extension for Magento prior to version 1.3.10 is vulnerable to a critical SQL Injection security flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take complete control of the affected Magento server and database.
With almost 80,000 downloads at the time of writing, the affected component is the most popular blog component available via Magento Connect.
Read moreNews Product Research / Posted May 14, 2015
In this video series we discuss the common security flaws encountered in HTML5 enabled websites. Our focus is around Cross-Origin communication through postMessage and CORS.
Read moreSecurity Alerts / Posted April 21, 2015
Researchers have identified a serious vulnerability in Magento, the popular e-commerce platform owned by eBay. This critical flaw in the Magento eCommerce platform exposes online shops to serious risk by allowing malicious hackers to access credit card data or execute arbitrary PHP code on the web server. This vulnerability should be considered a high risk factor for businesses making use of the Magento platform, and should be addressed as a matter of priority.
Read moreSecurity Alerts / Posted April 15, 2015
Microsoft has released a patch for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows HTTP Stack for all supported editions of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Read moreNews Product Research / Posted March 04, 2015
The Appcheck Web Application scanner is developed in conjunction with a team of around 20 experienced penetration testers and as such deploys the very latest techniques in vulnerability detection from the front lines. Included in those techniques is our ability to detect DOM Based Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities using a combination of static and run-time analysis of JavaScript and Flash content. Unlike most SaaS vulnerability scanners, AppCheck NG deploys both lexical and browser based analysis of each assessed application component to ensure modern JavaScript heavy and Flash based applications are fully explored for vulnerabilities. This technology allows AppCheck to detect security flaws in components other scanners will fail to detect.
Read moreResearch Security Alerts / Posted March 03, 2015
On the 10th of February 2015 Appcheck reported several security flaws in the popular VirtueMart eCommerce extension for Joomla (Version 3.0.2). A fix has since been made available via http://virtuemart.net/ although no official announcement was released by the vendor.
Read moreProduct Security Alerts / Posted January 09, 2015
The “GHOST” vulnerability is a security flaw within a key component of the Linux Operating System. The affected component “gethostbyname” is found in the Linux GNU C Library that is used by all Linux programs. If an attacker can pass a specially crafted hostname to the affected function it may be possible to execute malicious code on the system.
Read moreResearch Security Alerts / Posted November 28, 2014
On the 18th August, 2014, AppCheck reported a Directory Traversal Vulnerability in the SafeNet SAS Outlook Web Access Agent that, without requiring any user authentication, allows a remote attacker to gain access to any file located on the remote server’s local hard drives.
Read moreProduct Security Alerts / Posted October 31, 2014
Drupal is a popular open source content management system (CMS). The CMS platform is used by hundreds of thousands of organisations globally and has one of the largest user communities.
On 15th October 2014, a pre-authentication SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) was disclosed after a code audit of Drupal extensions. The vulnerability was found in the way Drupal handles prepared statements meaning a malicious user can inject arbitrary SQL queries and control the Drupal installation.
Read moreResearch Security Alerts / Posted October 21, 2014
On April 8th 2014, AppCheck reported several Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in the Magento e-commerce platform via the eBay bug bounty program. eBay responded to inform us that the vulnerabilities had already been reported.
However, since more than 6 months have passed and no fix is yet available, This advisory is intended to inform Magento administrators of the vulnerability so that action can be taken to mitigate the flaw.
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