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Announcing SonarSweep: Improving training data quality for coding LLMs
Recent research from Anthropic has shown that even a small amount of malicious or poor quality training data can have a massively negative impact on a model’s performance, exposing users to significant security and quality issues.


The Power of Code Quality
Code Quality—a term you may have casually used or heard before but may not have synthesized or internalized its true essence. In this post, learn what Code Quality is and why it matters.
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WordPress Core - Unauthenticated Blind SSRF
Our security researchers were surprised to discover a low-hanging code vulnerability in WordPress Core that we will discuss in this blog post.
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You’re 3 minutes away from clean Java pull requests!
In this blog, we demonstrate how you can get started with SonarQube Cloud in less than 3 minutes and ensure all new Java pull requests are clean, every time.
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Sonar Streamlines the Race to Release
Knowing if your latest release candidate is built with Code Quality doesn’t have to be a guessing game. With Sonar at your side, you’ll know that every new line, every PR and every build is clean.
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Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code
In the third part of our Securing Developer Tools series, we look at a critical vulnerability that affects one of the most popular code editors: Visual Studio Code.
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Security Implications of URL Parsing Differentials
Our security research led to the discovery of a flaw in a popular Apache2 authentication module. We come back on this case of parsing differential and how various languages behave when working with URLs.
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Disclosing information with a side-channel in Django
We recently found a vulnerability in Django that allows us to disclose sensitive information. Let’s review the root cause, exploiting technique, and patch.
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Remote Code Execution via Prototype Pollution in Blitz.js
We recently discovered a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in Blitz.js leading to Remote Code Execution. Learn about this bug class and how to avoid it in your code!
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Unrar Path Traversal Vulnerability affects Zimbra Mail
We discovered a vulnerability in Zimbra Enterprise Email that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker fully take over Zimbra instances via a flaw in unrar.
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Zimbra Email - Stealing Clear-Text Credentials via Memcache injection
We discovered flaws in Zimbra, an enterprise email solution, that allow attackers to steal credentials of users and gain access to their email accounts.
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Sonar’s analysis performance targets
We've finally defined our own performance goals for analysis - so that we're no longer subjecting ourselves to apples-to-oranges comparisons with tools that may not have the same goals or outcomes. Now, we can clearly state what you can expect from analysis, and how long analysis of a project should take under standardized conditions.
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