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John Fontana

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Standards & Identity Analyst, Yubico
Member Since: 9/7/2018
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John Fontana tracks authentication and identity standards for Yubico. He also sits on the FIDO Alliance Board and is the co-chair of the W3C WebAuthn Working Group. Previously, he followed all things identity for Ping Identity. He spent 15 years as a tech journalist for a handful of publications writing about enterprise topics including collaboration, directories, network infrastructure, databases, open source, ERP and security. He has covered IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Google, among other enterprise vendors. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, CNN, CIO and Mashable.
Articles by John Fontana
Tor Weaponized to Steal Bitcoin
Dark Reading Staff 10/18/2019
Data Privacy Protections for the Most Vulnerable -- Children
Dimitri Sirota, Founder & CEO of BigID,  10/17/2019
State of SMB Insecurity by the Numbers
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer,  10/17/2019
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CVE-2015-9501
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-22
The Artificial Intelligence theme before 1.2.4 for WordPress has XSS because Genericons HTML files are unnecessarily placed under the web root.
CVE-2019-16971
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-22
In FusionPBX up to 4.5.7, the file app\messages\messages_thread.php uses an unsanitized "contact_uuid" variable coming from the URL, which is reflected on 3 occasions in HTML, leading to XSS.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-10-22
In FusionPBX up to 4.5.7, the file app\contacts\contact_addresses.php uses an unsanitized "id" variable coming from the URL, which is reflected in HTML, leading to XSS.
CVE-2019-16973
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-22
In FusionPBX up to 4.5.7, the file app\contacts\contact_edit.php uses an unsanitized "query_string" variable coming from the URL, which is reflected in HTML, leading to XSS.
CVE-2015-9496
PUBLISHED: 2019-10-22
The freshmail-newsletter plugin before 1.6 for WordPress has shortcode.php SQL Injection via the 'FM_form id=' substring.