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The MailPoet plugin for the WordPress blogging platform has been found to be vulnerable to an exploit that allows a potential attacker to upload any file to the affected website, without having to provide any authentication credentials.The plugin has been downloaded more than 1.7 million times, and its popularity is owed to the fact that […]

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The latest stable version of Microsofts Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) has been found to be susceptible to public exploits, which can completely disarm its protection. Researchers at Offensive Security selected an older exploit that leveraged a weakness in the way Internet Explorer 8 handled the objects in memory in order to bypass ASLR (address […]

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The exploit attempt targeted the Visual Basic Scripting for Applications feature in Microsoft Word.

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