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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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About SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275) vulnerability

About SQL Injection - The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275) vulnerability

About SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275) vulnerability. This plugin for WordPress CMS allows you to create event pages with search and filtering capabilities. The plugin is installed on more than 700,000 websites.

The plugin offers extensive customization options, including using individual plugin functions in your own code. One of these functions, tribe_has_next_event(), was found to have a SQL injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to extract sensitive information from the website’s database. An exploit is available on GitHub.

❗️ The developers note that this function is not used by the plugin itself (“unused code”). Only sites that have manually added a tribe_has_next_event() call will be vulnerable.

If you are using WordPress with The Events Calendar plugin, check if there is some tricky customization using this vulnerable function and update to v.6.6.4.1 and above.

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