Security advice, made clearer

A security record describes a stored cross-site scripting flaw in the GeoDirectory WordPress plugin. Here is what site owners should check and how to respond calmly.

A reflected cross-site scripting issue affects versions up to and including 3.3.2 of WooCommerce Extra Product Options Pro. Here is what site owners should check and do next.

Security researchers have reported a medium-severity vulnerability in Ninja Forms versions up to and including 3.15.5. Here is what site owners should check and do next.

A published advisory says SimpleForm versions up to and including 3.10.2 have a critical file-upload vulnerability. Website owners should check their installed version and follow the publisher’s latest guidance.

A security advisory affects the Smart Post plugin for WordPress. Here is what the finding means and the sensible checks for site owners.

A reported vulnerability in Froxlor before version 2.3.15 could let logged-in customers create MySQL databases even when an administrator had disabled that feature.

A high-severity information-disclosure issue in Froxlor could expose API credentials to administrators with a particular permission. Here is what website owners should check.

A medium-severity issue in Control Web Panel affects versions before 1.29. There is no confirmed fixed release in the available evidence, so site owners should check the publisher’s current guidance before making changes.

A published advisory describes a high-severity SQL injection issue in Control Web Panel (CWP) versions before 1.16. Here is what to check and what the finding does—and does not—tell you.

A vulnerability has been reported in Control Web Panel (CWP) versions before 1.16. Here is what site owners and administrators should check, and what the report does—and does not—show.

A medium-severity authorisation issue could allow an unauthenticated visitor to view unpublished job-position details in affected Dolibarr installations. Here is what site owners should check.

A reported vulnerability affects Dolibarr ERP CRM versions before 24.0.0. It requires administrator authentication, but could allow operating-system commands to be run as the web server user.

A published advisory describes a medium-severity denial-of-service issue in certain versions of svg-sanitizer. Here is what site owners should check and do next.

A security issue in older versions of the open-source pypdf library could make an application use excessive memory when opening a specially crafted PDF. Here is how to check whether it is relevant to your site or software.

A flaw in the Python PDF library pypdf can cause excessive memory use when it processes a specially malformed PDF. Here is how to check what your site or application uses.

A published security advisory affects pypdf versions before 6.21.3. It concerns how the Python library reads certain PDF page labels, rather than proving that any particular website has been compromised.

A security issue in the pypdf PDF library can cause an application to get stuck when handling specially crafted PDF-related data. Here is what to check and what to do next.

A security issue in myTinyWMS versions before 1.6.4 can allow malicious input saved by an authenticated user to run in another user’s browser. Here is what to check and how to respond calmly.

A published advisory describes a medium-severity issue affecting SecureDrop versions from 2.5.0 up to, but not including, 2.16.0. A fixed release has not been confirmed in the supplied information.

A serious vulnerability has been reported in the Python packages pybars3 and pybars4. It matters where an application accepts templates from people who should not be able to run Python code.

A vulnerability in Chamilo LMS could let a malicious webpage trigger changes when an authenticated administrator or DRH visits it. Here is what site owners should check.

A published security advisory affects Chamilo LMS versions before 2.0.1. The issue depends on an attacker first being able to place specially crafted data in the system’s database.