Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) that could allow an attacker to take over admin ...

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft released a security update addressing CVE-2025-55315, a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows HTTP request smuggling. While request smuggling is a known technique, ...

This setting would copy the captured request header values into the metric attributes of the automatically generated HTTP server metrics (e.g., http.server.request.duration, ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

A desync attack method leveraging HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities impacted many websites and earned researchers more than $200,000 in bug bounties. New variants of the HTTP request smuggling attack method ...

Abstract: HTTP/3 will be the new de-facto standard for communication in web applications. Despite its increasing integration into modern browsers, its security properties have not yet been fully ...

Attackers are chaining two flaws in the wild to bypass authentication and escalate privileges via the PAN-OS management web interface to gain root privileges on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Palo Alto ...

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When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, every detail matters — including the HTTP headers. But what exactly are HTTP headers, and why should you care? HTTP headers allow the ...

A WordPress plug-in installed more than 6 million times is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting flaw (XSS) that allows attackers to escalate privileges and potentially install malicious code to enable ...