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Plesk Patches Three Flaws That Start From an Ordinary Customer Account
by Natalia Nowak · 26 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Plesk has patched three flaws reachable from an ordinary customer account. The worst can end at root, and its fix ships outside the core update.
Security
Researchers Found Six Major CDNs Vulnerable to New HTTP/3 Attacks. Two Deployed Mitigations.
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ix major CDNs amplify attacker traffic toward the sites they front. Two have deployed mitigations, four are still discussing it.
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Forminator’s 9.8 Flaw, and Eleven More Fixes in Nineteen Days
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Forminator's 9.8 file upload flaw was patched seventeen days before it went public, and the changelog shows eleven more fixes around it.
Security
WordPress 7.0.4 Fixes a PNG That Runs Code. The Flaw Was Almost 10 Years Old.
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
WordPress 7.0.4 fixes a flaw where an image hiding PostScript runs code on the server. It needs an author account, and multi-author sites should hurry.
Security
Cloudflare Reached FedRAMP High Without Building a Separate Government Cloud
by Natalia Nowak · 11 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Cloudflare for Government reached FedRAMP High on the same public network that serves everyone else. The Class D label is ahead of FedRAMP's calendar.
Security
N-able’s First Patch Left the Door Open, and Attackers Walked Back Through It
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
N-able's first fix missed a second route to the same flaw. Attackers are using it, and the new hotfix does not remove what they left behind.
Security
Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free. The Free-Domain Registry Behind Years of Phishing.
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
Freenom, once the internet's biggest source of free phishing domains, has quietly returned, now charging money, two years after Meta sued it into retreat.
Security
A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
WordPress did the rare thing and forced a core security fix to millions of sites. Within 72 hours the break-ins started anyway. The gap is the story.
Security
A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
F5 patched a critical Nginx flaw (CVSS 9.2) latent since 2011. It only hits specific regex-map configs, and a proof-of-concept exploit is due in early August.
Security
An Unauthenticated Path to Code Execution in WordPress Core, Already Being Exploited
by Łukasz Nowak · 18 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
A flaw in WordPress core hands strangers the keys to your site, no password required, and attackers are already walking through the door. It is already being exploited.
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