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The future is AC/DC: the Agent Centric Development Cycle

The era of Continuous Integration, with its familiar processes and workflows, is rapidly coming to an end. Traditional CI relies on developers making small, frequent, iterative commits. Today, the “continuous” part is changing.

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LimeSurvey 2.72.3 - Persistent XSS to Code Execution
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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
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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?!
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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
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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
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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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