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Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests

Reflectiz launched a multi-agent AI penetration testing platform for websites, claiming up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentests by leveraging existing site context.

Reflectiz, a web exposure management vendor, announced an agentic penetration testing product within a new Offensive Hub. The platform uses specialized AI agents for crawling, stack fingerprinting, attack execution, and independent validation, claiming to cover the OWASP Top 10 and reduce false positives. Findings integrate with existing workflows via REST API, CI/CD triggers, and Slack, and an AI remediation agent named Atlas guides fixes. The announcement is a vendor press release with a planned September 15 webinar demo.

GBHackers · 8d agoTools 2 sources

CVE-2026-82438: Apache Storm Webapp: Authenticated API Responses Exposed to Arbitrary Web Origins

Three CORS misconfigurations in Apache Storm 3.0.0 let malicious web pages from arbitrary origins read authenticated API responses.

CVE-2026-82438 (severity: important) affects Apache Storm Webapp (storm-webapp) versions 3.0.0 before 3.1.0. Three separate mechanisms allowed a web page on an unrelated origin to read responses served to authenticated users, including the Logviewer reflecting the request's Origin header in Access-Control-Allow-Origin while also sending Access-Control-Allow-Credentials. This enables a malicious site to silently exfiltrate authenticated Storm API and log data from a victim's browser session.

oss-security · 3d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-824381

ProgramDistill: From Interactive Web Apps to Verifiable Reference-Guided SWE Tasks

ProgramDistill is a benchmark evaluating coding agents on reconstructing web app features from reference applications, testing nine frontier agents.

ProgramDistill evaluates coding agents on features discovered through interaction with fully functional reference applications, factorizing apps into features with replayable behaviors verified via gold patches. Its mine-craft-patch pipeline discovered 1,975 replay-verified behaviors across 26 applications and built 4,063 tasks without human intervention. On cumulative full-application reconstruction workflows, GPT-6 Astra achieved 49.2% and Claude Opus 5 28.8% success. In partial reconstruction, success drops from 100% to 64.0% and from 96% to 32% as restoration depth increases from 1 to 8.

Hugging Face daily papers · 1d agoAI research

[webapps] Apache Gravitino 1.2.1 - SSRF

Exploit-DB publishes a webapps SSRF proof-of-concept exploit targeting Apache Gravitino 1.2.1.

Exploit-DB entry 52641 documents a server-side request forgery (SSRF) exploit against Apache Gravitino version 1.2.1. The entry is categorized under web applications and provides a working proof of concept for the flaw.

Exploit-DB · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC1

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB language-agnostic syntax highlighter that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label code tokens in the browser.

gpu-lexer splits source into words, whitespace, and symbols, then a small WebGPU model uses local and whole-file context to assign nine token classes, working on languages never seen in training. On held-out files, 12.57% of token labels differ from Shiki, though this measures agreement with Shiki rather than objective correctness. In benchmarks against Shiki 4.4.3, Prism.js, Highlight.js, Sugar High, and Starry Night, it highlighted 10 concatenated copies of three.min.js (5.56M characters) about 10x faster on an Apple M4 Pro in Chrome 152. The author frames it as an experiment, not a grammar-equivalent highlighter.

[webapps] OrkesConductor 3.30.2 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Exploit-DB publishes unauthenticated remote code execution exploit for Orkes Conductor 3.30.2 workflow orchestration platform.

A public exploit demonstrates unauthenticated remote code execution in Orkes Conductor version 3.30.2. The flaw allows arbitrary code execution on exposed Conductor instances without any authentication. Organizations running the workflow orchestration platform should patch or restrict exposure immediately.

Exploit-DB · Aug 10, 2026Exploit / PoC

Prisma Cloud WAAS Archives

Unit 42 archive page for Prisma Cloud WAAS, Palo Alto's web application and API security module; contains no new findings.

This is a product category archive page from Unit 42 describing Prisma Cloud Web Application and API Security (WAAS). It advertises protection spanning the OWASP Top 10, API protection, risk profiling, file upload and geolocation controls for cloud-native architectures. No new research findings, incidents, or vulnerabilities are reported.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · Aug 17, 2026Industry

[webapps] Nodemailer 9.0.0 - File Read/ SSRF

A public proof-of-concept demonstrates arbitrary file read and SSRF in Nodemailer 9.0.0.

Exploit-DB entry 52654 contains a webapps proof-of-concept for Nodemailer 9.0.0 demonstrating both arbitrary file read and server-side request forgery. Nodemailer is a widely used Node.js email-sending library, so affected deployments could expose local files or internal services. The listing does not include a CVE identifier or evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.

Exploit-DB · Aug 18, 2026Exploit / PoC

[webapps] FreePBX 17.0.2 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Exploit-DB published a remote code execution exploit targeting FreePBX version 17.0.2.

Exploit-DB entry 52681 documents a remote code execution vulnerability in FreePBX 17.0.2, a widely used open-source PBX platform. The listing contains no CVE id, authentication requirement, or evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. FreePBX is commonly internet-facing, so unauthenticated RCE would be significant for exposed deployments.

Exploit-DB · 14d agoExploit / PoC2

[webapps] CubeCart 6.7.4 - SQL injection

A second proof-of-concept SQL injection exploit for CubeCart 6.7.4 was published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a SQL injection proof-of-concept affecting CubeCart 6.7.4, the open-source shopping cart application. The entry demonstrates the flaw but the provided text does not include a CVE identifier or reports of exploitation in the wild. It appears alongside related CubeCart XSS and SQL injection listings published the same day.

Exploit-DB · 17d agoExploit / PoC1

Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests

Reflectiz launched a multi-agent AI penetration testing platform for websites, claiming up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentests.

Reflectiz, a continuous web exposure management vendor, launched a multi-agent penetration testing platform for websites under a new Offensive Hub. Four specialized agents crawl the site like a real user, fingerprint the stack, run attacks, and independently validate findings to remove false positives. The company claims up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentesting by starting from its pre-existing live model of each site. Findings integrate via REST API, CI/CD triggers and Slack, and the Atlas remediation agent guides fixes.

CSO Online · 8d agoTools

[webapps] miniOrange 5.4.3 - Unauthenticated Auth Bypass

A proof-of-concept exploit for an unauthenticated authentication bypass in miniOrange 5.4.3 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for an unauthenticated authentication bypass in miniOrange 5.4.3. The flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication without credentials. No in-the-wild exploitation or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 16d agoExploit / PoC

Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent

Agent-net open-sourced Webagent, a Go harness turning websites into AI agents with code-enforced guardrails wrapping every tool call.

Agent-net released Webagent under Apache 2.0, a Go framework where a business fills in a declarative JSON spec, picks one provider for each of nine pluggable slots (retrieval, memory, guardrail, channel, secrets, presenter, model, action, observability), and runs webagent serve. Every tool the agent holds is wrapped by action.Guard so the chosen guardrail executes before any action runs and the model cannot bypass it. Live capabilities include OpenRouter/gateway LLM brains, MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, and Slack, WhatsApp, and HTTP channels; browser actions, OAuth-gated MCP, OTel export, and AgentNet identity/billing are not yet built. The project is v0 with a deferred-hardening list and cites arXiv 2511.19477 on an 85% versus 50% task-success gap attributed to architecture over model capability.

MarkTechPost · 2d agoAI tools & infra1

[webapps] Ray 2.56.0 - Directory Traversal & Local File Inclusion

Public exploit released for directory traversal and local file inclusion in Ray 2.56.0, the widely used distributed ML framework.

Exploit-DB entry 52635 publishes a web application exploit targeting Ray 2.56.0, the distributed computing framework from Anyscale commonly used for ML workloads. The PoC demonstrates a directory traversal and local file inclusion condition, allowing attackers to read files outside the intended path on an exposed Ray instance. Ray dashboard instances exposed to the internet could leak sensitive files such as credentials and configuration.

Exploit-DB · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

browser-use released Jev Ultrafast, an open-source browser agent that uses a dynamic, indexed action space for web automation.

Hacker News is linking to the browser-use Jev Ultrafast GitHub repository, described as a browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space. The submission reached 40 points and 4 comments. The source text contains only submission metadata, so architecture and benchmark details are not available.

[webapps] Wolf CMS 0.8.3.1 - RCE v

A proof-of-concept exploit for remote code execution in Wolf CMS 0.8.3.1 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for a remote code execution vulnerability in Wolf CMS 0.8.3.1. The listing is categorized under web applications. No exploitation in the wild or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

Top 10 Best CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection) Platforms in 2026

GBHackers ranks 10 CNAPP platforms for 2026, naming Wiz, Prisma Cloud, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud as category leaders.

The guide describes CNAPP as the umbrella combining CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and DSPM, arguing that cross-pillar correlation of attack paths is the platform's core value. Wiz is ranked best for graph-based correlation, Prisma Cloud for the broadest module set, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud for Azure economics. It also cites Google's approximately $32 billion agreement to acquire Wiz, announced in March 2025, as buyer leverage and a reason to seek roadmap and neutrality protections in multi-year contracts.

Cyber Security News · 6d agoIndustry1

[webapps] flyto-core 2.26.7 - Arbitrary File Write

flyto-core 2.26.7 has an arbitrary file write vulnerability with a public proof-of-concept exploit on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB listing 52655 discloses an arbitrary file write vulnerability in flyto-core version 2.26.7. A proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The listing provides no CVE identifier and no indication of active exploitation; arbitrary file writes can potentially enable code execution depending on write locations.

Exploit-DB · Aug 18, 2026Exploit / PoC

Affora: A Design System for Agent-Friendly Interfaces

Affora is a design system making interfaces legible to computer-use agents while preserving human workflows, with reusable components and executable checks.

Affora supports both human users and computer-use agents through a shared interface rather than a separate agent-only surface. Three controlled studies cover component implementations, visual variation, and interaction-design principles, producing guidance from individual components to complete sites with reusable implementations and executable checks. Evaluation on independently authored interfaces shows gains where agent-readability deficits exist, limited effects where they do not, and a workflow case gives preliminary evidence of reduced interaction cost.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 19h agoAI research

[webapps] CubeCart 6.7.4 - Cross-Site Scripting

A cross-site scripting exploit targeting CubeCart 6.7.4 web applications was published on Exploit-DB as entry 52661.

Exploit-DB listing 52661 discloses a cross-site scripting vulnerability in CubeCart version 6.7.4, classified under webapps. The listing makes a public exploit available, but no CVE id, exploitation evidence, or vendor patch status is provided in the item text.

Exploit-DB · 17d agoExploit / PoC

Citrix adds AI-powered browser activity analysis to SecurAccess

Citrix launched Session Insights for SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise, using AI to record and analyze browser activity from users and autonomous agents.

Citrix Session Insights adds automatic session recording and AI-powered risk detection for browser activity by human users and autonomous AI agents within Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise. The capability creates visual forensic records, highlights risky behavior for faster investigations, and recommends policy adjustments or changes to agent authority levels. It is designed to support audits and governance as enterprise AI agent workflows expand.

Help Net Security · 1d agoTools

[webapps] flyto_core 2.26.7 - Server-Side Request Forgery

Exploit-DB published a server-side request forgery proof of concept for flyto_core 2.26.7.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept for server-side request forgery affecting flyto_core version 2.26.7. SSRF flaws can allow attackers to make arbitrary requests from the server toward internal resources. No CVE id is cited and no in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

terms.txt: A Consent and Compensation Protocol for Agentic Web Access

terms.txt specifies a robots.txt-style protocol for per-path, per-purpose AI crawler consent and compensation, with enforcement adding 0.20-0.65 ms per request.

The paper documents that automated clients now make up most web requests, that training dominates Cloudflare-classified crawling, and that the largest AI platforms fetch thousands of pages per returned visitor while robots.txt cannot express identity, purpose, terms, or price. It specifies terms.txt plus an origin-enforced exchange using Web Bot Auth signatures, signed intent, delegation tokens, HTTP 402 negotiation, and signed receipts. A dependency-free implementation adds 0.20 to 0.65 ms per request on one vCPU.

arXiv cs.CR · 7d agoResearch1

[webapps] webpack_devserver 5.2.5 - CSRF

Exploit-DB published a cross-site request forgery proof of concept for webpack_devserver 5.2.5.

Exploit-DB lists a webapps CSRF proof-of-concept against webpack_devserver version 5.2.5. The flaw affects the local webpack development server, where cross-site requests could be issued against it. No CVE id is cited in the entry and no active exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

12 Best CNAPP Platforms Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Independent comparison of 12 CNAPP platforms finds identical estates draw quotes 2-3x apart; Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the only fully published per-resource option.

A vendor-independent buyer's guide compares twelve CNAPP platforms including Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz, Uptycs, Aqua, Zscaler, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud on pricing mechanics, procurement leverage, and capability-per-dollar. It finds quotes swing 2-3x on identical estates because vendors define 'workload' differently. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is highlighted as the only major with fully published per-resource rates.

GBHackers · 2d agoIndustry1

[webapps] Blocksy Companion 2.1.46 - RCE

Public RCE exploit published for Blocksy Companion 2.1.46, a popular WordPress plugin by CreativeThemes.

Exploit-DB entry 52640 documents a remote code execution vulnerability in Blocksy Companion version 2.1.46, a widely installed WordPress page-building plugin. A public exploit allows attackers to achieve code execution on sites running the vulnerable plugin version. Administrators should verify the installed version and update if a patched release is available.

Exploit-DB · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

A New Way to Navigate GreyNoise

GreyNoise launched a redesigned Visualizer that consolidates internet-noise analysis workflows into one interface.

GreyNoise introduced a redesigned Visualizer interface for its internet noise and scanning intelligence platform. The redesign groups related workflows in one place to make the platform's capabilities easier to navigate. It is a product usability update with no security impact.

GreyNoise · Aug 17, 2026Tools

[webapps] Langflow 1.8.4 - Path Traversal to Remote Code Execution

A path traversal to remote code execution exploit for Langflow 1.8.4, a popular LLM application builder, was published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept exploit chaining path traversal to remote code execution in Langflow 1.8.4, an open-source tool used to build LLM applications and agents. The chain allows an attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory and achieve code execution on the host. The provided text does not include a CVE identifier or reports of exploitation in the wild, but RCE in a widely deployed AI tooling product is notable for defenders.

Exploit-DB · 17d agoExploit / PoC1

Objective vs. Search: Decomposing What Makes a Good Tokeniser

New tokeniser study shows search procedure, not optimisation objective, drives bits-per-byte performance across model sizes, vocabulary sizes, and multilingual settings.

The paper disentangles BPE and UnigramLM along two axes: optimisation objective (compression vs log-likelihood) and search procedure (bottom-up merging vs top-down pruning). Two new algorithms, BottomUpLL and TopDownComp, complete the 2x2 design space, and trained language models are evaluated on bits-per-byte and BLiMP across model sizes, vocabulary sizes, and English-only vs multilingual domains. Bottom-up tokenisers consistently achieve lower bits-per-byte in most settings, while BLiMP shows no consistent relationship with design choice.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 19h agoAI research

[webapps] Duplicati 2.2.0.3 - JWT Signing Key Leak

A public exploit exposes JWT signing key leakage in backup software Duplicati 2.2.0.3, risking session forgery.

Exploit-DB published exploit #52646 for Duplicati 2.2.0.3, a backup application. The issue leaks the JWT signing key, which could let an attacker forge authentication tokens. The disclosure does not report any exploitation in the wild.

Exploit-DB · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

ApateWeb: An Evasive Large-Scale Scareware and PUP Delivery Campaign

Unit 42 uncovers ApateWeb, a campaign using over 130,000 domains and multilayered redirects to deliver scareware, adware and PUPs to millions of users.

Unit 42 discovered ApateWeb, a large-scale campaign using a network of more than 130,000 domains to deliver scareware, potentially unwanted programs, adware including a rogue browser and browser extensions, and scam pages. The campaign uses a three-layer structure with deceptive emails as the entry point, centralized victim tracking via UUIDs, intermediate adware or anti-bot redirections, and evasion tactics such as cloaking, bot detection error pages, and wildcard DNS abuse. Activity spiked since August 2022, with several hundred attacker-controlled sites remaining in Tranco's top 1 million rankings and millions of monthly hits; Unit 42 blocked an estimated 3.5 million sessions across 74,711 devices in November 2023.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · Aug 17, 2026Phishing & fraud in the wild

[webapps] CubeCart 6.7.4 - SQL

A proof-of-concept SQL injection exploit targeting CubeCart 6.7.4 was published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB carries a proof-of-concept exploit for a SQL injection vulnerability in CubeCart 6.7.4, an open-source e-commerce platform. The listing demonstrates the injection issue but the provided text includes no CVE identifier or evidence of active exploitation. SQL injection in the storefront could expose or modify store data.

Exploit-DB · 17d agoExploit / PoC1

The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)

Latent Space launches an AEO tracker scoring 7 frontier models' product recommendations across 161 categories, revealing generational bias flips.

Latent Space built a tracker measuring Answer Engine Optimization by running 6 prompt variations across 7 frontier models with search enabled over 161 product categories, scoring first choices, alternatives, mentions, and anti-recommendations. It found 28 categories with a universally dominant primary choice and observed soft biases, such as models favoring their own lab's coding agents. Analysis of Anthropic's Sol→Astra and Opus→Fable generations showed newer models consulting fewer sources and being less likely to change answers when questions are paraphrased.

Latent Space · 9d agoAI research

[webapps] C-MOR 6.0104 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

A proof-of-concept cross-site scripting exploit for C-MOR video surveillance software 6.0104 appeared on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB published a proof-of-concept cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit against C-MOR 6.0104, an IP video surveillance platform. The listing demonstrates script injection in the web interface, but the provided text contains no CVE identifier or indication of active exploitation. Successful XSS against the surveillance console could enable session hijacking or manipulation of the monitoring interface.

Exploit-DB · 17d agoExploit / PoC1

From Specs to Apps: Verifying and Monitoring Models of Signal and WhatsApp

Researchers use the SpecMon runtime monitor to verify WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop against formal Signal protocol models, finding undocumented libsignal fork differences.

The paper applies SpecMon, a runtime monitoring tool, to check whether executions of WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop conform to formal models of the Signal protocol. The authors instrument both applications and build Tamarin-compatible multiset-rewrite models, including the first model of WhatsApp Web's implementation and the most detailed model to date of Signal's original protocol. They verify authentication and secrecy properties for core Signal protocol components, show monitoring detects deliberately injected faults with low overhead, and identify previously undocumented behavioral differences between the original libsignal library and WhatsApp's fork.

arXiv cs.CR · 6d agoResearch

[webapps] PodcastGenerator 3.2.9 - Stored XSS

A stored cross-site scripting flaw in PodcastGenerator 3.2.9 is documented with a public proof-of-concept exploit on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB published exploit ID 52677 targeting PodcastGenerator 3.2.9, a web application affected by stored cross-site scripting. The listing provides a proof-of-concept for the flaw but includes no CVE identifier or reports of active exploitation.

Exploit-DB · 15d agoExploit / PoC1

What Is a Website Attack Surface? A Beginner’s Guide to Reducing Risk

Sucuri's beginner guide explains how logins, plugins, APIs, and forgotten backups expand a website's attack surface and how to reduce that risk.

Sucuri published educational guidance explaining that login pages, contact forms, plugins, APIs, staging sites, and forgotten backups each add exposed components that constitute a website's attack surface. The article frames continuous attack surface reduction as a risk management practice for website owners. It is evergreen educational content rather than breaking incident news.

Sucuri Blog · 28d agoIndustry

[webapps] Bludit CMS 3.20.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

A reflected cross-site scripting flaw in Bludit CMS 3.20.0 is documented with a public proof-of-concept exploit on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB published exploit ID 52678 targeting Bludit CMS 3.20.0, a web application affected by reflected cross-site scripting. The listing contains a proof-of-concept but includes no CVE identifier or evidence of active exploitation.

Exploit-DB · 15d agoExploit / PoC1

Don't Trust the Super-App: A Case Study of Russia's Max

Researchers show super-apps like Russia's Max can silently capture mini-app UI, storage, network traffic, and authentication, enabling untraceable user impersonation.

The paper challenges the assumption that super-apps are trusted intermediaries, citing WeChat's passive cross-mini-app tracking, Russia's Max's entanglement with state prosecution of online speech, and Iran's Bale operating during a prolonged internet shutdown. Using Max as a case study, the authors demonstrate that a super-app can capture mini-app UI, read and write mini-app local storage, inject arbitrary JavaScript into mini-app runtimes, mediate network traffic, and control authentication context, enabling silent user impersonation without trace. They argue these capabilities are inherent to the super-app architecture and call for mobile OS and app store interventions to close the blind spot.

arXiv cs.CR · 6d agoResearch1

[webapps] Marimo 0.20.4 - RCE

A public proof-of-concept demonstrates remote code execution in Marimo 0.20.4, the open-source Python notebook framework.

Exploit-DB lists a remote code execution proof of concept affecting Marimo version 0.20.4. Marimo is an open-source reactive Python notebook tool used by developers. The listing does not reference a CVE id or observed in-the-wild exploitation.

Exploit-DB · 15d agoExploit / PoC1