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Security News — 30 August 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 6 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 30 August 2026 · 14 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 4
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs30 Aug
CriticalCVSS 9.8
- Impact
- Privilege escalation
- Audience
- WordPress admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL The Custom User Registration Fields for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.2.3. This is due to the plugin accepting an attacker-controlled afreg_sele…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs30 Aug
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Authentication bypass
- Audience
- Network/firewall admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL · Vendor: Apple The Omnivore API (packages/api) before the fix in commit abf53d6 contains an authentication bypass in Apple sign-in token verification. The decodeAppleToken function extracted the 'alg' field from the atta…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs30 Aug
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Path traversal
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL Cloud Commander before 19.20.2 contains a directory traversal vulnerability in REST file-operation and markdown endpoints that fails to properly validate path normalization. Attackers can use path traversal sequences to r…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs30 Aug
CriticalCVSS 10
CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL argocd-mcp 0.8.0 binds its HTTP transport to every network interface and accepts MCP sessions without requiring caller credentials when ARGOCD_API_TOKEN is configured. Attackers who can reach the listener can invoke the…
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Other CVEs 4
Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.
CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs30 Aug
MediumCVSS 6.3
CVSS 6.3 MEDIUM ### Summary `qs.stringify` throws a `TypeError` when it serializes an object whose own `constructor` property has a truthy, non-callable `isBuffer` member. `utils.isBuffer` duck-types buffers by calling `obj.constructor.isB…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs30 Aug
LowCVSS 2.1
- Product
- PHPGurukul Student Information System
- Audience
- Linux/server admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 2.1 LOW A weakness has been identified in PHPGurukul Student Information System 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /student_edit1.php. Executing a manipulation of the argument ID can lead to sq…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs30 Aug
LowCVSS 2.1
CVSS 2.1 LOW A vulnerability has been found in macrozheng mall up to 1.0.3. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /order/paySuccess of the component Payment Status Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument orderId leads…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs30 Aug
LowCVSS 2.1
- Product
- Impacted
- Impact
- SQL injection
- Audience
- Linux/server admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 2.1 LOW A security flaw has been discovered in itsourcecode Sales and Inventory System 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /pages/emp_del.php. The manipulation of the argument ID results in sql injection. The attack may b…
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Threat Activity 5
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
The Hacker News30 Aug
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code exe…
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Dark Reading30 Aug
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Dark Reading30 Aug
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BleepingComputer30 Aug
Anthropic is permanently increasing Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it's not as good as it sounds. [...]
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BleepingComputer30 Aug
The latest version of the Brave browser, 1.94, introduces a feature called 'Email Aliases' that allows users to generate disposable email addresses when signing up to a new service. [...]
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Research & Detection 1
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
Microsoft Security Blog30 Aug
Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance. The post TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel thro…
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