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Apache Superset SQL Injection Flaw Gets Public PoC Exploit

A public Python proof-of-concept exploit was released for CVE-2026-23980, an authenticated error-based SQL injection flaw in Apache Superset before 6.0.0.

A public proof-of-concept exploit repository now targets CVE-2026-23980, an error-based SQL injection affecting Apache Superset versions from 0.0.0 up to but not including 6.0.0. An authenticated user with read access can inject SQL through the sqlExpression or where parameters, potentially reaching business, customer, and security data depending on database configuration and privileges. Apache disclosed the flaw in February and urges upgrading to Superset 6.0.0; compensating controls include least-privilege database accounts, network restrictions, and log monitoring.

[webapps] Payload CMS 3.72.0 - Blind SQL Injection

A proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection vulnerability in Payload CMS 3.72.0 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection flaw in Payload CMS 3.72.0. The listing falls under the webapps category and allows reproduction of the injection. No in-the-wild exploitation or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

Cisco Unified Intelligence Center SQL Injection Vulnerability

Cisco patched a blind SQL injection in Unified Intelligence Center's web interface allowing authenticated local attackers to read the internal database.

Cisco disclosed a blind SQL injection vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Unified Intelligence Center, caused by insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An authenticated local attacker can send crafted requests and read the contents of the device's internal database. Exploitation requires valid user credentials, and Cisco has released software updates.

Cisco Security Advisories · 28d agoAdvisory

[webapps] EasyAppointments 1.5.1 - Blind SQL Injection

A proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection vulnerability in EasyAppointments 1.5.1 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for a blind SQL injection flaw in EasyAppointments 1.5.1. The listing falls under the webapps category and enables reproduction of the injection. No in-the-wild exploitation or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

Inside the Metabase SQLi: Exploited in the Wild

Wiz reverse engineers Metabase SQLi CVE-2026-72898, exploited in the wild, using AI to speed defenses.

Wiz published an analysis of Metabase CVE-2026-72898, a SQL injection vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. The write-up reverse engineers the flaw and applies AI to accelerate defensive guidance for responders. Organizations running Metabase should treat the flaw as actively targeted.

Wiz Blog · Aug 10, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-72898

USN-8765-1: python-sql vulnerability

Ubuntu patches python-sql SQL injection flaw where values passed to unary operators are incorrectly escaped.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8765-1 fixes a vulnerability in python-sql discovered by Cedric Krier. The library incorrectly escaped values passed to unary operators, allowing an attacker to potentially perform SQL injection attacks against applications using the library.

Ubuntu Security Notices · 1d agoAdvisory

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

Developer launches Engrim, an open-source local-first SQLite memory engine giving AI CLI agents persistent memory.

Engrim, shared on Hacker News (89 points), is a universal, local-first memory layer built on SQLite for AI CLI tools. It targets agent-style CLI applications that need durable cross-session memory without cloud dependencies. Details beyond the repository description were not provided in the source text.

Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox flaw is underway (CVE-2026-9586)

Attackers actively exploit SQL injection flaw CVE-2026-9586 in unauthenticated Sangoma Switchvox endpoints, dropping reverse shells and second-stage cryptominer malware.

CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection in Sangoma Switchvox SMB Edition 8.3, lets crafted HTTP POST requests execute arbitrary SQL against the backend PostgreSQL database. Horizon3 honeypots first saw exploitation on August 30, 2026 from IP 176.65.148.184, and dozens of additional source IPs have since joined with scanning payloads and second-stage malware that appears to be a cryptominer. The flaw was patched in Switchvox 8.4.0.2 on July 14, 2026; roughly 4,000 exposed instances exist, mostly in the United States, and exploitation is likely against most of them.

Help Net Security · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-9586

PLEASE_READ_ME: The Opportunistic Ransomware Devastating MySQL Servers

Guardicore Labs uncovers the PLEASE_READ_ME ransomware campaign targeting MySQL servers, using double extortion and publishing stolen victim data.

Guardicore Labs at Akamai uncovered an opportunistic ransomware campaign dubbed PLEASE_READ_ME that targets MySQL servers. The attackers employ double extortion, publishing stolen data to pressure victims into paying. The campaign is devastating internet-facing MySQL deployments, making exposed database servers the primary at-risk population.

Akamai Blog · 8d agoRansomware in the wild

datasette 0.65.5

Datasette 0.65.5 patches a permission bypass where a trailing newline in a table name could expose private rows (GHSA-h547-rmjf-5m2m).

Datasette 0.65.5 fixes a security issue tracked as GHSA-h547-rmjf-5m2m in which a trailing newline in a requested table name bypassed table permission checks and exposed private rows. The flaw was reported by dpfkdlemtp. The same fix is included in the 1.0a40 alpha release.

Simon Willison · 4h agoVulnerability 5 sources

IDORacle: Template-Guided SQL-Sink Mediation for Object-Level Authorization in Java Applications

IDORacle intercepts MyBatis/JDBC SQL sinks to block horizontal privilege escalation in legacy Java apps with sub-millisecond guard latency.

IDORacle is a template-guided SQL-sink interception and rewriting framework that prevents IDOR/BOLA horizontal privilege escalation at runtime in Java database applications. It propagates authenticated identity context across HTTP requests, asynchronous tasks, and data-access boundaries via a server-side trace identifier, and computes dual SQL fingerprints at the MyBatis/JDBC boundary to generate reusable mediation plans. On a Java-SQL benchmark grounded in real-world CVE reports, it blocks tested violations with worst-case guard latency of 0.17 ms, reduced to 0.017 ms average for hot templates via redundancy-aware optimization.

arXiv cs.CR · 6d agoResearch1

E-Commerce Access, Vedicline Data, Langflow RCE, ASUS Claim, and Energy Shell Access

SOCRadar reports underground posts claiming a Bangladeshi e-commerce database, Vedicline data leak, Langflow RCE, ASUS breach, and energy-sector shell access.

SOCRadar's Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts, including an alleged Bangladeshi e-commerce customer database offered for sale. The roundup also covers a claimed Vedicline data leak, Langflow remote code execution, an ASUS breach claim, and energy-sector shell access sales. Details on record counts and victims were not provided in the excerpt.

SOCRadar · 9d agoData breach

Rosetta at AlexandriaX-2026: LoRA-Adapted NileChat for Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation

Rosetta ranks 4th and 5th in AlexandriaX-2026 dialectal Arabic dialogue translation using a LoRA adapter on NileChat-3B, finding limited pretraining benefit.

The Rosetta system for the AlexandriaX-2026 shared task fine-tunes a LoRA adapter on NileChat-3B for context-aware English-to-dialectal Arabic dialogue translation. The adapter was additionally pretrained on MADAR and PADIC dialect corpora for the unconstrained track. It achieved spBLEU 26.10 (4th, constrained) and 25.09 (5th, unconstrained). External dialect pretraining improved only two of thirteen dialects while slightly degrading overall performance, indicating negative transfer.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 7d agoAI research1

Akamai Valkey Managed Database: Real-Time Memory for Enterprise AI

Akamai launched Valkey Managed Database, a low-latency in-memory data layer aimed at cutting AI inference costs and accelerating RAG.

Akamai introduced Valkey Managed Database, a managed in-memory data service based on the open-source Valkey project. The company positions it as real-time memory for enterprise AI, optimizing inference costs, accelerating retrieval-augmented generation, and powering real-time AI agents.

Akamai Blog · 29d agoAI tools & infra

Off the Hook: Discovering and Observing Active Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox CVE-2026-9586

Horizon3 disclosed CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection in Sangoma Switchvox leading to RCE, now under active exploitation in the wild.

Horizon3.ai attack researchers discovered CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma's Switchvox VoIP appliance that can escalate to remote code execution. The researchers observed active exploitation of the flaw in the wild. A disclosure write-up was published alongside their findings, and defenders should treat internet-exposed Switchvox instances as at risk.

Horizon3.ai · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-9586

Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters

Threat actors use invisible Unicode characters (ASCII smuggling) to hide phishing lures and evade email security filters.

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, embedding invisible Unicode characters in emails to conceal malicious lures. The approach is designed to evade email security filters that scan for visible phishing indicators. The report gives no victim counts or named campaigns.

BleepingComputer · 10d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

A New Jersey court ordered people-search broker Radaris to transfer radaris.com and a dozen related domains to Atlas Data Privacy over Daniel's Law violations.

On August 26, a New Jersey judge found Radaris failed to defend claims that it violated Daniel's Law, which protects law enforcement officials' personal data and imposes $1,000 fines per ignored removal request. The court ordered radaris.com and more than a dozen related broker domains transferred to plaintiff Atlas Data Privacy Corp. Radaris had delayed litigation using offshore shell entities and previously used a fictitious CEO named 'Gary Norden' in investor-facing press releases.

Krebs on Security · 10h agoPolicy & legal

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

Microsoft tracked a phishing campaign peaking at 2.37 million daily messages that hid financial-lure keywords with invisible Unicode tag characters to evade filters.

Microsoft researchers uncovered a large phishing campaign that inserted invisible Unicode tag characters (e.g., U+E0020) inside common financial keywords like 'funding', splitting words so keyword, signature, and regex matches fail. The campaign peaked at more than 2.37 million messages in late February 2026, ran from about 150 finance-themed sender domains on a strict weekday-only schedule, and gradually declined to under 20% of peak weekday volume by late March, with residual spikes through mid-June. The technique repurposes ASCII smuggling, normally used for indirect prompt injection against AI assistants, for traditional email phishing evasion. Microsoft advises defenders to strip or fold invisible Unicode code points before content matching and to watch for bulk weekday spikes from churning finance-themed domains.

The Register · Security · 12d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild1

Cisco BroadWorks Out-of-Band Blind XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Cisco patched an XXE flaw in BroadWorks' OCI XML parser letting unauthenticated remote attackers read sensitive files from the filesystem.

Cisco BroadWorks permits external entity resolution by default in its Open Client Interface XML parser, enabling out-of-band blind XXE injection. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send crafted XML to the OCI-P provisioning service and read sensitive configuration files with BroadWorks user privileges. Cisco has released software updates and no workarounds are available.

Cisco Security Advisories · 28d agoAdvisory

[webapps] Planyo_Online_Reservation_System 3.0 - Arbitrary File Read via SSRF

Exploit demonstrates arbitrary file read via SSRF in Planyo Online Reservation System 3.0.

Exploit-DB entry 52636 documents an arbitrary file read vulnerability in Planyo Online Reservation System version 3.0, reachable through a server-side request forgery condition. The public PoC shows how the web application can be manipulated to fetch and disclose local files. Sites running the vulnerable version could expose sensitive server files.

Exploit-DB · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

Reference-Based Bias Detection in LLMs via Relative Representations of Hidden States

Researchers propose auditing LLM bias via relative hidden-state representations, detecting bias increases with 3-50x less compute than output-level benchmarks.

The paper introduces a reference-based bias auditing method that compares hidden-state representations across model variants, such as before and after fine-tuning, by encoding sentences relative to a fixed anchor set. The resulting Representational Bias Shift (Delta-B) correlates with output-level bias change in 15 of 18 tested settings, reaching |r| = 0.84 under full fine-tuning across WildGuardMix, DecodingTrust, and ToxiGen benchmarks. Thresholding Delta-B detects checkpoints whose bias increased with ROC AUC between 0.65 and 0.99 and beats a SEAT-based baseline, while auditing a model in about three minutes with 3-50x less compute.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research1

datasette-mcp 0.2

Simon Willison released datasette-mcp 0.2, changing MCP SQL results to object arrays for better small-model usability.

Datasette-mcp 0.2 changes the execute_sql 'rows' output from an array of arrays to an array of objects, helping weaker models avoid losing track of positional column mappings. The plugin now depends on mcp>=2.1.1. This is the first non-alpha release, and the author reports using it extensively.

Simon Willison · 15d agoAI tools & infra

Hidden Prompts Trick AI Into False Email Summaries

Attackers can hide prompts in invisible HTML within emails to manipulate AI email summarizers into producing misleading summaries.

Dark Reading reports that simple HTML invisible to users can manipulate AI-powered email summarizers into generating false or malicious summaries. The technique is a form of prompt injection delivered through hidden email content. It creates risk that decision-makers act on manipulated AI-generated email summaries rather than the actual message content.

Dark Reading · 22d agoAI safety & security

[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

How a Real Estate Company Turned a SQL Lockout Into Actionable Security Insight

A real estate company used Horizon3.ai's NodeZero to trace a SQL account lockout to a hidden privilege path and remediate it.

A Horizon3.ai customer story describes a large real estate company using NodeZero to investigate a SQL account lockout. The assessment traced the lockout to a deeper privilege path in the environment. The findings reportedly drove immediate remediation of the exposed privilege risk.

Horizon3.ai · 22d agoTools

Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 changes causing app crashes

Microsoft warns Windows Server 2025 memory-management changes crash AWE apps, including SQL Server with Lock Pages in Memory; disable LPIM as workaround.

Microsoft confirmed a known issue where Windows Server 2025 memory-management changes cause access violations, memory corruption, or unexpected termination in applications using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE). SQL Server running with the Lock Pages in Memory (LPIM) policy is affected, with symptoms including 0xC0000005 access violations, DBCC CHECKDB failures, crash dumps, and services stopping or restarting unexpectedly. Microsoft's temporary workaround is to disable the LPIM policy for the SQL Server service account or disable AWE in other affected apps, with a permanent fix promised in a future Windows update.

BleepingComputer · 8d agoAdvisory1

Meet Redis LangCache: A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90% and Returns Cache Hits Up to 15x Faster

Redis launches LangCache, a managed semantic cache matching LLM prompts by meaning, cutting API costs up to 90% and returning hits up to 15x faster.

Redis LangCache is a fully managed semantic caching service in public preview on Redis Cloud, accessed via a REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs. It embeds incoming prompts, vector-searches stored entries, and returns a cached response when similarity clears a configured threshold, skipping the LLM call entirely. Redis claims up to 90% cost savings and up to 15x faster cache hits; a demo run showed 0.37 seconds versus 2.232 seconds direct inference (about 6x) with zero LLM tokens. Customer Mangoes.ai reports a 70% hit rate, 70% lower LLM spend, and 4x faster responses on a patient-care voice app.

MarkTechPost · 6d agoAI tools & infra1

Observational Indistinguishability and Integrity Blind Regions in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workflows

Framework formalizes integrity blind regions in hybrid quantum-classical workflows, validated across 3,600 label interventions with conformal detection rules.

The paper presents a claim-relative evidence and reference framework for integrity of hybrid quantum-classical workflows, distinguishing structural blind regions caused by observational indistinguishability from finite-batch statistical misses. Experiments over 3,600 label interventions show exact label-path invariance for feature and prediction views. The geometry-aligned construction detects 343 of 2,700 conclusion-changing interventions using the conformal rule and 1,183 of 2,700 with the uncorrected union, with executed conformal clean false-action rates of 0.048-0.059.

arXiv cs.CR · 1d agoResearch