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The Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs
Make smarter AI adoption decisions with Sonar's latest report in The State of Code series. Explore the habits, blind spots, and archetypes of the top five LLMs to uncover the critical risks each brings to your codebase.


Clean As You Code essentials - What are Quality Profiles and Quality Gates?
Learn how the functionality of Quality Profiles and Quality Gates come together to enable the SonarSource Clean As You Code methodology.
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Etherpad 1.8.13 - Code Execution Vulnerabilities
We discovered two code execution vulnerabilities that affected Etherpad servers and data. Learn more about the technical details and how to avoid such coding issues.
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Enterprise-ready: Authentication & Authorization with SonarQube Server (LDAP, SSO & more)
Discover how SonarQube Server can integrate with your existing enterprise setup (LDAP, SSO & co.) for user authentication and authorization.
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CiviCRM 5.22.0 - Code Execution Vulnerability Chain Explained
We discovered critical code vulnerabilities in CiviCRM, a popular CRM plugin for Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Learn more about how to find and patch these issues.
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7 more reasons to upgrade to SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS
SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS is here! Not every improvement could be mentioned in the release announcement, so check out these LTS easter eggs that make this the Best LTS Ever.
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Broken pipelines for everyone!
With SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS, SonarSource has made failing the pipeline available for everyone, using any CI you want. But with great power comes ... well, you know. In this post you'll learn what went into the decision to make this available and what you'll want to watch out for when you use it.
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Grav CMS 1.7.10 - Code Execution Vulnerabilities
We responsibly disclosed two code execution vulnerabilities in Grav CMS, one of the most popular flat-file PHP CMS in the market. Let’s see what we can learn from them and discuss their patches!
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NoSQL Injections in Rocket.Chat 3.12.1: How A Small Leak Grounds A Rocket
We recently discovered vulnerabilities in Rocket.Chat, a popular team communications solution, that could be used to take over Rock.Chat instances.
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What to expect from JavaScript/TypeScript analysis on OWASP JuiceShop
In April 2021, we updated our JavaScript and TypeScript SAST engines to explore more execution flows, increase performance and improve overall accuracy. It now goes far beyond what we did in the past for these languages. With this post, we’re going to tell you what you can expect for these languages, and more specifically which vulnerabilities can be detected.
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SonarQube Server 8.9 LTS: 3 steps to a smooth upgrade
SonarQube Server 8.9 Long Term Support (LTS) is officially here! Check out this list of tips & tricks on how to upgrade your environment from start to finish.
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PHP Supply Chain Attack on Composer
We recently discovered a vulnerability in Composer, the main package manager for PHP, and were able to use it to take over the central repository, packagist.org.
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