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A remote code execution proof of concept for Joomla Content Editor (JCE) 2.9.15 was published on Exploit-DB.
Exploit-DB added a webapps proof-of-concept for remote code execution affecting the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) component version 2.9.15. JCE is a widely deployed editor extension used on Joomla websites. The entry provides no CVE id and no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.
Joomla fixes CVE-2026-71572, response header injection in download views enabling reflected file download attacks, in 5.4.8/6.1.3.
Joomla disclosed a response header injection flaw (CVE-2026-71572) in multiple download views, caused by lack of output processing, enabling reflected file download and content-type confusion. It is rated low impact, severity, and probability and affects Joomla CMS 3.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2. The fix ships in Joomla 5.4.8 and 6.1.3 on 2026-08-18.
Joomla patches CVE-2026-71573, improper CORS origin validation in CMS requests, in versions 5.4.8 and 6.1.3.
Joomla disclosed improper CORS origin validation (CVE-2026-71573), where configured CORS origins were not properly validated on CORS requests, rated moderate impact/severity and moderate probability. It affects Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2. Fixed in Joomla 5.4.8 and 6.1.3; reported on 2026-07-09 by Agamemnon Fakas and caveeroo.
Drupal issues moderately critical advisory for XSS in bundled CKEditor affecting content editors; fixed versions released, exploitation theoretical.
Drupal published SA-CORE-2026-013, rated moderately critical (13/25), covering an XSS vulnerability in the CKEditor library used for WYSIWYG editing. An attacker able to create or edit content, even without direct CKEditor access, could exploit it to target users with WYSIWYG permissions. Affected versions include Drupal core 10.5.x, 11.0.x and 11.4.x below 11.4.7, and updated releases are available. Exploitation is rated theoretical.
Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73336, an XSS in schema.org markup outputs caused by improper escaping, affecting CMS 5.1.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2.
Joomla security advisory 20260806 describes CVE-2026-73336, a cross-site scripting issue in schema.org markup outputs. Improper escaping flags create an XSS vector in schema.org output; the vendor rates impact and severity as moderate with low probability. Affected versions are 5.1.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by Amin Isayev and Geo (GitHub.com/geo-chen) on 2026-07-21.
Joomla fixes CVE-2026-72532, an improper ACL check letting unauthorized users create categories via webservice endpoints, in CMS 5.4.8/6.1.3.
Joomla disclosed an incorrect access control flaw (CVE-2026-72532) in category webservice endpoints, allowing unauthorized users to create categories for inaccessible components. It affects Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2 and is rated moderate impact and severity with low probability. The fix ships in Joomla 5.4.8 and 6.1.3 on 2026-08-18; it was reported by Amin Isayev and Geo.
Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73371, an improper ACL check letting unauthorized users batch-copy uneditable items in Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2.
Joomla security advisory 20260808 describes CVE-2026-73371, an incorrect access control issue in batch copy actions. The flaw allows unauthorized users to perform copy batch operations on items they cannot edit. Affected versions are 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by Sabuhi Mammadov on 2026-07-28.
Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73337, an MFA authentication bypass caused by insufficient state checks, affecting Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2.
Joomla security advisory 20260807 describes CVE-2026-73337, an authentication bypass in Joomla CMS multi-factor authentication. Insufficient state checks create a vector that allows 2FA checks to be bypassed; the vendor rates the impact as high with moderate probability. Affected versions are 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by bloman and Matej Rada on 2026-07-25.
Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73373, an unrestricted SHTML file upload flaw affecting CMS 1.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2 that can enable code execution.
Joomla published security advisory 20260810 for CVE-2026-73373, an unrestricted upload of files with dangerous type in Joomla CMS. The default dangerous-file list omitted SHTML files, which could lead to code execution on servers that execute SHTML. Affected versions are 1.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by Valentin Lobstein (Chocapikk) on 2026-07-29.
Researchers propose Conformal Relevance, which builds conformal score functions via in-context example curation and ensembling to improve conciseness across seven NLP tasks.
The paper targets NLP tasks like summarization and extractive QA that reduce to retrieving content under coverage and conciseness constraints. Conformal Relevance replaces hand-engineered LLM scoring prompts with curated in-context examples and ensembles, maintaining coverage guarantees while improving conciseness with minimal manual input. The authors demonstrate the framework on seven NLP tasks and contribute theory, including a complementarity condition for when ensembling improves worst-case sentence scores and a saturation bound on ensemble gains.
TypeSafe AI launches Jev, a judgment-only model built by ex-OpenAI staff that classifies inputs with 70-500 ms latency instead of generating text.
Startup TypeSafe AI, co-founded by former OpenAI researcher and InstructGPT co-author Diogo Almeida, introduced Jev, a model that scores developer-defined answer options with probabilities rather than generating free-form text. The company claims 70-500 ms responses, parallel multi-question evaluation, and $0.042 per million input tokens with free outputs, targeting request routing, sales intent scoring, and assistant guardrail checks. Benchmarks are self-built and not independently verified, the 'no hallucination' guarantee only covers output structure, and access is currently via waitlist.
Joomla patches CVE-2026-72531, an improper ACL check allowing unauthorized custom-field creation via webservice endpoints, in CMS 5.4.8/6.1.3.
Joomla disclosed an incorrect access control issue (CVE-2026-72531) letting unauthorized users create custom fields for inaccessible components through webservice endpoints. It affects Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2, rated moderate impact and severity with low probability. Fixed in Joomla 5.4.8 and 6.1.3; reported by ebadfd on 2026-07-06.
Study shows LLMs with Mixture-of-Agents and QLoRA finetuning effectively simplify medical texts into plain language while preserving content.
The paper evaluates Plain Language Adaptation (PLA) using GPT-4o-mini, Gemini-1.5-pro, and LLaMA in zero-shot and few-shot settings. It compares prompting strategies, QLoRA finetuning across models, and integrates Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) techniques for robustness. Results demonstrate LLM-driven PLA makes healthcare texts more comprehensible while retaining essential content.
Apache Syncope's JPA persistence layer allows SQL injection via the sort parameter in Task search, affecting all releases through 4.1.2.
CVE-2026-82232 is rated important by upstream: improper neutralization of special elements in an SQL command allows SQL injection through the sort parameter in Task search within syncope-core-persistence-jpa. Affected versions are 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. No exploitation in the wild is reported.
ModerationBench shows foundation models can nearly triple Bluesky's moderation F1 (0.60 vs 0.22), with instruction- and example-driven guidance performing comparably.
Researchers built ModerationBench, a new benchmark of 4,000 manually annotated in-the-wild posts from Bluesky, to test whether foundation models can reliably operationalize content moderation policies. They systematically compare instruction-driven guidance (reasoning from policy precepts) with example-driven guidance (generalizing from precedents) for Vision-Language Models. Both paradigms achieve comparable peak effectiveness, and foundation models nearly triple the F1 of Bluesky's deployed moderation system on Random Posts (0.60 vs 0.22).
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.
Knowledgator released GLiFormer, an Apache-2.0 encoder (264M/575M) handling NER, classification, relations, and nested JSON extraction, scoring 91.10 F1.
Knowledgator Engineering released GLiFormer, a schema-conditioned encoder that performs NER, classification, relation extraction, nested JSON structuring, and embeddings without generating output tokens. GLiFormer Large v1 has 575.6M parameters and scores 91.10 F1 on nested JSON extraction, close to GPT-5.6-luna's 91.96; both checkpoints are Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Reported median latency is 69 ms on GPU for the base model, though relation extraction (21.33 micro-F1) still trails GLiNER-Relex and larger LLMs.
Joomla fixes CVE-2026-71574, inconsistent ACL checks letting unauthorized users mutate data via webservice APIs, in CMS 5.4.8/6.1.3.
Joomla disclosed an inconsistent access control flaw (CVE-2026-71574) in mutating webservice endpoints, where unauthorized users could perform mutations restricted in the backend UI; impact is rated high. It affects Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2, with moderate severity and low probability. The fix ships in Joomla 5.4.8 and 6.1.3 on 2026-08-18.
Huntress launched AI Search for Managed SIEM, translating plain-English questions into ESQL log queries with schedulable custom alerts.
Huntress introduced AI Search in its Managed SIEM, letting users query logs in natural language instead of writing ESQL, KQL, or SPL. The feature generates a real ESQL query behind the scenes, exposes it for users to inspect and learn from, and allows saved searches to be scheduled as recurring alerts at hourly, daily, or weekly cadence. A planned next version will return summarized plain-language answers instead of raw logs.
SCPTM graph-augmented variational topic model shows syntax aids topic diversity and descriptor quality but gains stem mainly from the variational encoder.
The Structural Contextual Probabilistic Topic Model represents corpora as heterogeneous document-word graphs with lexical and syntactic edges processed by a Graph Attention Network inside a VAE for mixed-membership topic distributions. Across four corpora, neural gains in document-topic alignment are attributable to the variational encoder rather than syntax, while graph-augmented variants improve topic diversity everywhere. Dependency paths add value on argumentative deliberative texts but are redundant in technical and institutional registers.
Insecure deserialization in Kaltura's legacy HTML5 Player V2 (mwEmbed) allows arbitrary file read and remote code execution; Player V7 is unaffected.
CERT/CC issued VU#308749 for two flaws in Kaltura's HTML5 Player V2 library (mwEmbed/html5lib), both caused by the same insecure deserialization bug. The flaws enable arbitrary file read and remote code execution via the exposed mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint. Affected versions include html5lib v2.45, v2.103 and earlier, and other v2.x releases; the currently supported Player V7 is unaffected. No evidence of exploitation was cited.
Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73372, an improper ACL check that leaks inaccessible contact items' data into schema.org snippets, affecting CMS 5.1.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2.
Joomla security advisory 20260809 describes CVE-2026-73372, an incorrect access control issue when injecting schema.org contact data. Improper access checks inject contact information for inaccessible contact items into schema.org snippets, exposing restricted data. Affected versions are 5.1.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by Stefan Wendhausen on 2026-07-31.
Hugging Face published a tutorial on training and finetuning multi-vector embedding models using the Sentence Transformers library.
Hugging Face's blog walks through training and finetuning multi-vector embedding models with Sentence Transformers. Multi-vector approaches store multiple vectors per document to support late-interaction retrieval. The post is a practical guide for developers building retrieval pipelines with the library.
An open methodology toolkit measures whether transformer language models contextualize fixed word forms across domains using bridge forms and layer-wise silhouette analysis.
The manual documents an open toolkit built around 'bridge forms' - identical written words recurring across two or more subject domains with a different sense in each - to test whether transformer language models individuate word occurrences by context beyond the embedding layer. It covers declarative specification of bridge forms, Wikipedia corpus acquisition, occurrence localization, layer-wise representation extraction, domain-pairwise silhouette measurement, and visualization, justifying each choice against failure modes such as sense contamination and subword-tokenization misalignment. It is a methodological and implementation reference and reports no empirical results.
Apache Syncope's Neo4j persistence layer permits Cypher injection via certain FIQL search expressions, affecting versions through 3.0.16, 4.0.7, and 4.1.2.
CVE-2026-86460 is a moderate-severity Cypher injection in Apache Syncope's syncope-core-persistence-neo4j module, triggered when processing some FIQL search strings. Affected versions are 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. No exploitation is reported; upgrade to fixed releases is advised.
Interpretability study traces how Qwen, Llama, and Gemma route query information and internal knowledge across layers when answering questions.
Researchers used layerwise interventions on hidden states to separate query-routing signals from target knowledge in language models, testing Qwen, Llama, and Gemma on country-continent questions with varied answer types. A pair-conditioned request direction strengthens before interventions alter downstream knowledge, opening a causal window while answer-supporting content is still forming. Trajectories differ by model: Gemma shows a partially overlapping mid-layer routing profile, while Llama has no sustained routing-effect window under the same gates.
Version 0.34 of Simon Willison's llm CLI adds response-duration metrics to log output, plus bug fixes and faster log querying.
The open-source llm command-line tool for interacting with large language models released version 0.34. The headline change adds response duration in milliseconds and human-readable form to llm logs --usage Markdown output, plus a new duration_ms field in llm logs --short. The release includes several contributed bug fixes and a significant performance improvement to llm logs, alongside the related llm-openrouter 0.7.1 release.
CISA added two actively exploited PaperCut NG/MF pre-auth flaws to the KEV catalog; federal agencies must patch by September 14.
CISA added CVE-2026-81578 (CVSS 8.8, missing authentication for critical function) and CVE-2026-82078 (CVSS 9.4, unsafe reflection) in PaperCut NG/MF to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Huntress confirmed active pre-authentication RCE exploitation in two customer environments and reproduced the full chain against a clean PaperCut NG 25.0.11 server, chaining the auth bypass into unsafe Java class loading for SYSTEM-level execution. About 47% of roughly 2,500 tracked PaperCut installs still run version 23 or earlier with no patch available, and observed attacker activity was limited to system discovery commands.
Five critical flaws (CVSS 9.8–10.0) in WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP enable WordPress admin takeover and RCE.
Wordfence and Patchstack disclosed five critical flaws in WordPress plugins and themes: WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP. The issues include unauthenticated authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76581), arbitrary file write leading to RCE (CVE-2026-18431), administrator account takeover via password-reset URL exposure (CVE-2026-19632), privilege escalation (CVE-2026-19598), and PHP object injection to RCE (CVE-2026-82222, CVSS 10.0). Patchstack says the GiveWP flaw chains an unsafe unserialize helper, attacker-controlled donation data, and a gadget chain in shipped code.
Opinion piece urges migrating 35KB preprompts from Anthropic/OpenAI to self-hosted Ollama, citing session privacy risks and safety filters blocking security research.
The author documents gotchas migrating 35KB preprompts from Claude Opus to self-hosted Ollama, motivated by fears that frontier providers train on user sessions, citing the OpenAI Navier-Stokes controversy. The piece argues inference providers cannot audit their own retention or training pipelines and that only self-hosted hardware offers verifiable privacy. It also criticizes frontier safety filters for refusing vulnerability research tasks and calls for models that support exploitability testing in CI/CD pipelines.