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Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. 
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posted in September 2015
Sodinokibi Ransomware: Where Attackers' Money Goes
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  10/15/2019
How to Think Like a Hacker
Dr. Giovanni Vigna, Chief Technology Officer at Lastline,  10/10/2019
7 SMB Security Tips That Will Keep Your Company Safe
Steve Zurier, Contributing Writer,  10/11/2019
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WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to a stored XSS attack to inject JavaScript into STYLE elements.
CVE-2019-17673
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WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header.
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WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to stored XSS (cross-site scripting) via the Customizer.
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WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-10-17
app/system/admin/admin/index.class.php in MetInfo 7.0.0beta allows a CSRF attack to add a user account via a doSaveSetup action to admin/index.php, as demonstrated by an admin/?n=admin&c=index&a=doSaveSetup URI.