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What is Clean Code?
If you’ve followed us for a while, you most likely noticed that we changed the way we describe what we do: from “code quality” to “continuous code inspection,” then “code quality and code security”… to Clean Code.
But what is Clean Code, and what does it encompass?
PHP Object Injection
A very common and critical vulnerability in PHP applications is PHP Object Injection. This blog post explains how they work and how they can lead to a full site takeover by remote attackers.
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Fully Automated Promotion Pipelines with SonarQube and Artifactory
Catch builds constructed from poor quality code before they make it to production. Discover how to integrate Artifactory and SonarQube.
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My Journey Interviewing with SonarSource...
What's it like to interview with SonarSource? Read on and find out!
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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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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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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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