It’s common knowledge that images make webpages, email footers and other similar elements more presentable and attractive. But a simple image containing a malicious link can be a serious threat. For ...

PayPal recently fixed a vulnerability on its PayPal.me site that could’ve let an attacker change a user’s profile without their permission. PayPal recently fixed a vulnerability on its PayPal.me site ...

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True, CSRF is not as common nowadays, but it doesn’t mean it’s not harmful to a web app or website. On the contrary, it can cause big problems for your business and your users. The prominent examples ...

Glassdoor, a website for job hunting and posting anonymous company reviews, has resolved a critical issue that could be exploited to take over accounts. Bug bounty researcher "Tabahi" (ta8ahi) found ...

The United States Government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about a vulnerability discovered in the WP Statistics WordPress plugin that affects up to 600,000 active ...

If you're worried about CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks (and you probably should be), then you've already added the code to your Views that adds an anti-forgery token to the data that the ...

Researchers from Princeton University today revealed their discovery of four major Websites susceptible to the silent-but-deadly cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack -- including one on ...

A deadly attack typically associated with Websites can also be used on LAN/WAN devices, such as DSL routers, according to a researcher who this week demonstrated cross-site request forgery (CSRF) ...

Yesterday, Vicente Aguilera Diaz from Internet Security Auditors released proof of concept of a CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) vulnerability in Google's Gmail, which he originally communicated to ...