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criticalAccess Control4 min

IDOR to full account takeover via predictable UUIDv1

Time-based UUIDs leaked creation order; enumerating them exposed password-reset tokens for any user.

2026-06-12

highSSRF6 min

Blind SSRF reaching cloud metadata through a PDF renderer

A server-side HTML-to-PDF feature followed redirects to 169.254.169.254 and embedded IAM creds in the output.

2026-06-11

highXSS3 min

Stored XSS via Markdown image onerror in a comment field

The sanitizer allowed img tags but not their attributes — except onerror slipped through a parser quirk.

2026-06-10

criticalAuthentication5 min

JWT alg confusion: forging tokens by switching RS256 to HS256

The public key, served at a well-known endpoint, was accepted as an HMAC secret when the alg header was changed.

2026-06-09