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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code

To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance

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Last week a new exploitation technique for PHP applications was announced at the BlackHat USA conference. Find out everything you need to know in this blog post.
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What is Phar Deserialization

Last week a new exploitation technique for PHP applications was announced at the BlackHat USA conference. Find out everything you need to know in this blog post.

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Protect your code against injection vulnerabilities with SonarCloud!

Injection security vulnerabilities (OWASP-A1) can run scared, as latest SonarCloud updates now provide advanced security checks to continuously detect them.

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In this blog post we introduce an authenticated arbitrary file deletion vulnerability (CVE-2018-20714) in the WordPress core that can lead to attackers executing arbitrary code.
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WordPress File Delete to Code Execution

In this blog post we introduce an authenticated arbitrary file deletion vulnerability (CVE-2018-20714) in the WordPress core that can lead to attackers executing arbitrary code.

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In this post we will examine the technical intrinsics of a critical vulnerability in the previous Moodle release (CVE-2018-1133).
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Evil Teacher: Code Injection in Moodle

In this post we will examine the technical intrinsics of a critical vulnerability in the previous Moodle release (CVE-2018-1133).

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Import issues of your favorite linters in SonarCloud!

Over the past 2 weeks, the following new features were deployed on SonarCloud: import of issues from external linters with built-in support for TypeScript projects, support for the Go language, graceful handling of username change, first version of the GitHub Application, new rules for Python, Java and Swift

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A Salesmans Code Execution: PrestaShop 1.7.2.4

PrestaShop is one of the most popular e-commerce solutions. We detected a highly critical vulnerability that allows to execute arbitrary code on any installation with version <= 1.7.2.4. In this technical blog post we present the vulnerability and the exploitation technique that could have been misused by attackers (CVE-2018-20717).

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LimeSurvey 2.72.3 - Persistent XSS to Code Execution

We detected two vulnerabilities in LimeSurvey < 2.72.3: An unauthenticated persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2017-18358) and an authenticated arbitrary file write vulnerability which can be chained.

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Joomla! 3.8.3: Privilege Escalation via SQL Injection

Joomla! is one of the biggest players in the market of content management systems and the second most used CMS on the web. We discovered a second-order SQL injection (CVE-2018-6376) that could be used by attackers to leverage lower permissions and to escalate them into full admin permissions on Joomla! prior version 3.8.4.

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Why did my coverage just drop?!

After an upgrade people are sometimes surprised to find that the next analysis of a project with no real changes shows a significant drop in coverage. Believe it or not, that really is a feature, not a bug, and it's called Executable Lines.

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CubeCart 6.1.12 - Admin Authentication Bypass

CubeCart is an open source e-commerce solution. In one of our latest security analysis we found two flaws in this web application that allow an attacker to circumvent the authentication mechanism required to login as an administrator (CVE-2018-20716).

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Supporting analysis of .NET Core projects

Support for SonarQube analysis of projects in the new MSBuild v15 format has been one of the features most requested by the Microsoft community, now it's done !

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