Archive for July 2026
GitLab Oj Spill RCE Exploit Goes Public
The GitLab Oj Spill RCE is now public: a working exploit chain and full technical writeup were released on July 24 for a remote-code-execution flaw that GitLab quietly patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. If your self-managed GitLab instance is still on 18.10.7 or older, any developer who can push a commit can now…
Read MoreCheck Point SmartConsole CVE-2026-16232: Admin Bypass
Check Point SmartConsole CVE-2026-16232 is now on CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list: an unauthenticated attacker can forge a login token and get full administrator access to the console that manages an organization’s entire firewall fleet. Check Point patched it on July 22 and confirmed a handful of customers were already targeted. The federal remediation deadline…
Read Morewp2shell WordPress RCE: Patch Now
wp2shell WordPress RCE is now a two-CVE chain in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — and it lets a completely unauthenticated attacker execute code on a default WordPress install with no plugins involved. If you run self-hosted WordPress and haven’t confirmed the July 17 auto-update landed, check today. What Happened wp2shell WordPress RCE combines two…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories July 24, 2026
The five stories in this week’s Cybersecurity News Stories July 24, 2026 share a structural feature that distinguishes them from the opportunistic exploitation patterns that dominate most news cycles: in each case, the component that was compromised, configured, or exposed was not the primary IT system the organisation considers its attack surface. It was the…
Read MoreCVE-2026-50522 SharePoint RCE: Patching Isn’t Enough
CVE-2026-50522 SharePoint RCE is now the third actively exploited remote code execution flaw hitting Microsoft’s on-premises collaboration platform in three weeks — and this one lets attackers steal cryptographic machine keys that remain valid long after the server is patched. If you run SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition on-premises, patching is no longer…
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