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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that’s collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-96652 (CVSS score: 5.3) – Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
The Hacker News
Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the bugs could potentially lead to unauthenticated remote code execution.
SecurityWeek+11 sources
Researchers say the developer’s account was compromised in March with a GlassWorm-linked loader.
SecurityWeek
Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus on a Serbian rector’s iPhone 6 days before elections, raising the known civil society spyware target count to 16. The Citizen Lab published a research note confirming that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware sometime in 2026. The infection…
Security Affairs+2 sources
DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them. It’s an OWASP Incubating Project, and anyone can self-host it. One command line, six scans DevGuard runs secret scanning, static code analysis, dependency checks against known CVEs, infrastructure-as-code checks,…
Help Net Security
Recently, threat actors have been increasingly delivering malware or credential phishing attacks at the end of long email threads designed to exploit a potential victim’s trust in an email contact. In this tactic, threat actors deliver malicious payloads at the end of seemingly normal email conversations after gaining the potential victim’s trust. These kinds of…
Cofense
PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but has not described. Security researchers at watchTowr say the two flaws allow remote code execution. Only the four supported PHP branches, 8.2 through 8.5, can…
The Hacker News
Two critical PHP RCEs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, leaked before the patch. Learn what’s known, who’s exposed, and how to prepare now.
Huntress+11 sources
Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.
Ars Technica
Kaspersky researchers analyze Operation FlashHole – a recent complex attack by Lazarus, involving a sophisticated malware set, watering-hole technique and abuse of CrossWeb EX financial security software.
Securelist (Kaspersky)
A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft’s website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites.
BleepingComputer
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, vulnerability, php…
Sophos+11 sources