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Half a Million WordPress Sites Running Vulnerable Form Plugin — 300,000 Still Unpatched
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-15748, CVSS 9.8) has been discovered in the Forminator Forms WordPress plugin, affecting all versions up to 1.56.1. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass file type validation and upload executable files, potentially leading to full site compromise — but only poses a significant risk when a Custom File Upload Storage root has been configured. The bug was patched in version 1.56.2 on July 31, though roughly 300,000 of the plugin's 600,000+ installations are still running a vulnerable version.
Belgian eID Software Had Holes Big Enough to Sign Away Your Life
Security researcher James Arnott discovered critical vulnerabilities in Belgium's Connective eID software, used by over two million people across major banks and government agencies, which failed to verify which websites could communicate with the application. The flaws allowed malicious websites to silently read card details, trick users into revealing their PINs via spoofed prompts, forge legally binding electronic signatures, and even execute remote code on victims' machines without any special permissions. Nitro Software Belgium fully patched the vulnerabilities 146 days after the initial report and awarded a $200 bug bounty, with no CVEs assigned.
ShareFile Shutdown Orders, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, and AI Coding Assistants You Can't Trust
This weekly cybersecurity recap highlights a recurring theme: attackers are exploiting the same ordinary vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, using the same AI-powered tools now available to security teams. Key incidents include Progress urging ShareFile customers to shut down Storage Zone Controllers due to an unspecified external threat, active exploitation of Citrix Bleed 2 to deploy DragonForce ransomware, a compromised Jscrambler npm package stealing developer credentials, and a new attack technique called HalluSquatting that tricks AI coding assistants into installing malicious code. The recap also covers a broad range of trending CVEs, new malware families, and emerging threat groups, underscoring that the gap between patch availability and active exploitation continues to narrow.
CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical FortiSandbox Bugs — Patch Now or Pull the Plug
CISA has added two critical FortiSandbox vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39808 and CVE-2026-25089), both scoring 9.1, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming active exploitation. The OS command injection flaws allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted HTTP requests, with fixes already released by Fortinet in April and June. CISA also flagged a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server deserialization flaw (CVE-2026-58644, CVSS 9.8), which enables authenticated attackers with Site Owner privileges to remotely execute arbitrary code.
Meta's AI Support Tool Had a Bug. Hackers Found It First.
Meta disclosed that approximately 20,000 Instagram accounts were compromised through a bug in its High Touch Support (HTS) account recovery tool, which failed to verify that the email address provided during a password reset request matched the one associated with the targeted account. This allowed attackers to redirect password reset links to their own email addresses and take over accounts that lacked two-factor authentication (2FA). Meta has since disabled the vulnerable tool, invalidated the exploited reset links, reset affected account passwords, and plans to notify impacted users.
The HTTP/2 'Bomb' Flaw Hitting NGINX, Apache and Friends — And What To Actually Do About It
A newly discovered vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, dubbed the "HTTP/2 Bomb," allows attackers to launch remote Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against widely used web servers and services, including NGINX, Apache, IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare. The attack exploits weaknesses in how HTTP/2 handles certain requests, overwhelming servers with minimal effort from the attacker. Organizations are advised to take proactive steps to secure their systems against such vulnerabilities, particularly as AI is increasingly being used to discover and exploit security flaws.
Unpatched RCE Flaw in Gogs Has a Metasploit Module and Zero Response From Maintainers
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 9.4) has been discovered in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, allowing any authenticated user to fully compromise servers, steal credentials, or tamper with code repositories. Rapid7 researcher Jonah Burgess reported the flaw to Gogs maintainers in March 2026, but despite initial acknowledgement, they have not responded since and no patch exists, while a public Metasploit exploit module has now been released. Users are advised to disable open registration, restrict repository creation, and turn off the "Rebase before merging" setting as interim mitigations until an official fix is available.
Cisco's Latest Perfect 10: Secure Workload Flaw Hands Attackers Admin Privileges for Free
Cisco has disclosed a maximum severity (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability, CVE-2026-20223, in its Secure Workload platform, which allows unauthenticated attackers to gain Site Admin privileges by sending crafted API requests to poorly validated internal REST API endpoints. A successful exploit could enable attackers to read sensitive data and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries, affecting both SaaS and on-premises deployments. Cisco says no workarounds exist, fixed versions have been released, and cloud-hosted deployments have already been patched, though the flaw marks another in a growing string of perfect-10 vulnerabilities from the networking giant.
Nine-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Quietly Handed Root Access to Anyone Who Asked
A security flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nine years has been found to allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root on a wide range of major distributions.