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WordPress Plugin Hole Puts ‘2 Million Websites’ At Risk
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-30777 and with a CVSS score of 6.1 out of 10 in severity, leaves sites vulnerable to reflected XSS attacks, which involve miscreants injecting malicious code into webpages. The code is then “reflected” back and executed within the browser of a visitor. Essentially, it allows someone to run JavaScript within another person’s view of a page, allowing the attacker to do things like steal information from the page, perform actions as the user, and so on. That’s a big problem if the visitor is a logged-in administrative user, as their account could be hijacked to take over the website.
“This vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user [to steal] sensitive information to, in this case, privilege escalation on the WordPress site by tricking the privileged user to visit the crafted URL path,” Patchstack wrote in its report. The outfit added that “this vulnerability could be triggered on a default installation or configuration of Advanced Custom Fields plugin. The XSS also could only be triggered from logged-in users that have access to the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.”
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EU Urged To Protect Grassroots AI Research or Risk Losing Out To US
It adds: “Europe cannot afford to lose AI sovereignty. Eliminating open-source R&D will leave the European scientific community and economy critically dependent on a handful of foreign and proprietary firms for essential AI infrastructure.” The largest AI efforts, by companies such as OpenAI and Google, are heavily controlled by their creators. It is impossible to download the model behind ChatGPT, for instance, and the paid-for access that OpenAI provides to customers comes with a number of restrictions, legal and technical, on how it can be used. By contrast, open-source AI efforts involve creating an AI model and then releasing it for anyone to use, improve or adapt as they see fit.
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‘Godfather Of AI’ Quits Fearing Existential Risk Of His Work: Is It Time For The UK To Take A Step Back?
Whilst people have been calling out artificial intelligence (AI) left right and centre for all the dangers it could cause…
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