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WordPress 5.5 named “Eckstine” has been released today

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Aug 11, 2020
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WordPress 5.5 named “Eckstine” has been released today

A new version of WordPress named “Eckstine” has been released today. Named “Eckstine” in honor of Billy Eckstine, this latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard.

Speed

Posts and pages feel faster, thanks to lazy-loaded images.

Images give your story a lot of impact, but they can sometimes make your site seem slow.

In WordPress 5.5, images wait to load until they’re just about to scroll into view. The technical term is ‘lazy loading.’

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Group - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2020-033

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Aug 6, 2020
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Group - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2020-033

Project: Group
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-August-05
Security risk: Moderately critical 11∕25
Vulnerability: Information disclosure

Description

The Group module enables you to hand out permissions on a smaller subset, section or community of your website.

Under very specific circumstances, where two group types support the same content, yet hand out different permissions, non-members of the first group type may use the set of permissions of the 2nd group type for the grouped content.

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Group - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2020-032

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Group - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2020-032

Project: Group
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-August-05
Security risk: Moderately critical 12∕25 
Vulnerability: Information disclosure

Description

The Group module enables you to hand out permissions on a smaller subset, section or community of your website.

With the 1.1 security release, new code was introduced to ensure proper access for all entity types, but a mistake introduced unexpected access to unpublished nodes.

Solution

Install the latest version:

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Apigee Edge - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-028

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Jul 23, 2020
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Apigee Edge - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-028

Project: Apigee Edge
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-July-22
Security risk: Moderately critical 10∕25 
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

The Apigee Edge module allows connecting a Drupal site to Apigee Edge in order to build a developer portal. It contains an "Apigee Edge Teams" submodule that provides shared app functionality by allowing developers to be organized into teams.

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Modal Form - Critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-029

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Jul 23, 2020
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Modal Form - Critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-029

Project: Modal Form
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-July-22
Security risk: Critical 16∕25
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

The Modal form module is a toolset for quick start of using forms in modal windows.

Any form is available for view and submit when the modal_form module is installed. The only requirement is to know the form's fully-qualified class name.

Solution

Upgrade to modal_form-8.x-1.2.

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Easy Breadcrumb - Moderately critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2020-027

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Jul 23, 2020
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Easy Breadcrumb - Moderately critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2020-027

Project: Easy Breadcrumb
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-July-22
Security risk: Moderately critical 13∕25 
Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

Description

This module enables you to use the current URL (path alias) and the current page's title to automatically extract the breadcrumb's segments and its respective links then show them as breadcrumbs on your website.

The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize editor input in certain circumstances leading to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

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Several security bugs fixed on Joomla

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Jul 15, 2020
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Joomla

Joomla team has announced several bug fixes today on July 14, 2020.

Core - System Information screen could expose redis or proxy credentials

    Project: Joomla!
    SubProject: CMS
    Impact: Low
    Severity: Low
    Versions: 3.0.0-3.9.19
    Exploit type: Information Disclosure
    Reported Date: 2020-Jun-17
    Fixed Date: 2020-July-14
    CVE Number: CVE-2020-15698

Description

Inadequate filtering in the system information screen could expose redis or proxy credentials

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Renderkit - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-026

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Jul 1, 2020
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Renderkit - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2020-026

Project: Renderkit
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2020-July-01
Security risk: Less critical 9∕25 
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

The renderkit module contains components which can transform the display of field items sent to it.

Some of these components do not respect the '#access' property on the field render element, and thus can make rendered field values visible to visitors who would otherwise not be allowed to see those field values.

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