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Make smarter AI adoption decisions with Sonar's latest report in The State of Code series. Explore the habits, blind spots, and archetypes of the top five LLMs to uncover the critical risks each brings to your codebase.
What is Phar Deserialization
Last week a new exploitation technique for PHP applications was announced at the BlackHat USA conference. Find out everything you need to know in this blog post.
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Protect your code against injection vulnerabilities with SonarQube Cloud!
Injection security vulnerabilities (OWASP-A1) can run scared, as latest SonarQube Cloud updates now provide advanced security checks to continuously detect them.
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WordPress File Delete to Code Execution
In this blog post we introduce an authenticated arbitrary file deletion vulnerability (CVE-2018-20714) in the WordPress core that can lead to attackers executing arbitrary code.
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Evil Teacher: Code Injection in Moodle
In this post we will examine the technical intrinsics of a critical vulnerability in the previous Moodle release (CVE-2018-1133).
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Import issues of your favorite linters in SonarQube Cloud!
Over the past 2 weeks, the following new features were deployed on SonarQube Cloud: import of issues from external linters with built-in support for TypeScript projects, support for the Go language, graceful handling of username change, first version of the GitHub Application, new rules for Python, Java and Swift
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A Salesmans Code Execution: PrestaShop 1.7.2.4
PrestaShop is one of the most popular e-commerce solutions. We detected a highly critical vulnerability that allows to execute arbitrary code on any installation with version <= 1.7.2.4. In this technical blog post we present the vulnerability and the exploitation technique that could have been misused by attackers (CVE-2018-20717).
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LimeSurvey 2.72.3 - Persistent XSS to Code Execution
We detected two vulnerabilities in LimeSurvey < 2.72.3: An unauthenticated persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2017-18358) and an authenticated arbitrary file write vulnerability which can be chained.
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Joomla! 3.8.3: Privilege Escalation via SQL Injection
Joomla! is one of the biggest players in the market of content management systems and the second most used CMS on the web. We discovered a second-order SQL injection (CVE-2018-6376) that could be used by attackers to leverage lower permissions and to escalate them into full admin permissions on Joomla! prior version 3.8.4.
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Why did my coverage just drop?!
After an upgrade people are sometimes surprised to find that the next analysis of a project with no real changes shows a significant drop in coverage. Believe it or not, that really is a feature, not a bug, and it's called Executable Lines.
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CubeCart 6.1.12 - Admin Authentication Bypass
CubeCart is an open source e-commerce solution. In one of our latest security analysis we found two flaws in this web application that allow an attacker to circumvent the authentication mechanism required to login as an administrator (CVE-2018-20716).
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Supporting analysis of .NET Core projects
Support for SonarQube Server analysis of projects in the new MSBuild v15 format has been one of the features most requested by the Microsoft community, now it's done !
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