AppCheck Security Blog

Customers new to the AppCheck platform can often be surprised at the number of vulnerabilities that AppCheck highlights relating to transport encryption offered on their services – unencrypted (plaintext) services, web applications with vulnerable cipher suites, encryption libraries containing exploitable flaws, registration forms that email users passwords in clear text. The list of checks that AppCheck performs is extensive, and on a website that has not previously been covered by regular vulnerability scanning, the extent of encryption issues can be surprising

Security Issue:

Researchers at AppCheck have discovered a security issue within Umbraco Forms which could lead to a remote code execution attack and/or arbitrary file deletion. Umbraco are advising everyone be ready for a fix which is to be released 20th July at 7am UTC.

In this article we’ll take a look into what HTTP “verbs” or methods are, how each varies and works, and what the potential security risks are that should be considered with each. We’ll also see how vulnerability scanners such as AppCheck can automatically check for many of the potential vulnerabilities presented by webservers making use of these methods.