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Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619): Leaked PHP Flaws and What to Do Now
PHP2Shell: two leaked critical PHP RCE flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, rated CVSS 9.2. What's confirmed, which PHP versions get the fix, and what to do before and after the October 21 patch.
Top CVEs of September 2026: Four Zero-Days, and Patching Wasn’t the Fix
Four of September 2026’s top five CVEs were exploited before a patch existed. Fix order, fixed builds, and the compromise check each one needs.
Top CVEs of August 2026
August's CVSS 7.0 was a Lazarus zero-day exploited for five weeks. Its CVSS 10.0 needed no patch at all. The top CVEs of August 2026, ranked by exploitation evidence rather than severity, with remediation steps for all five.
Top CVEs of July 2026
Five CVEs defined July 2026, ranked by what attackers actually exploited, not CVSS: an AD FS zero-day, twin SharePoint RCEs, a May patch that became a July KEV deadline, and the month's highest score that nobody touched.
wp2shell: A Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core, and Why It Is an Exposure Validation Problem
wp2shell is a pre-authentication RCE in WordPress Core that an anonymous request can trigger on a default install. Here are the affected versions, the patch steps, and why events like this are really an exposure validation problem.
Top CVEs of June 2026: 5 Critical Flaws to Patch Now
Five CVEs defined June 2026: Check Point VPN bypass, Splunk pre-auth RCE, Windows HTTP.sys kernel RCE, LiteLLM AI-gateway RCE, and Defender BlueHammer. How to fix each.
Top CVEs of May 2026: 5 Critical Flaws to Patch Now
Five CVEs dominated May 2026: cPanel's two-month zero-day, Linux's stealth kernel priv-esc, Langflow exploited 20 hours after disclosure, n8n's perfect-10 RCE chain, and Microsoft's SSO bypass. Here's what happened and what to do.
Top 7 Critical CVEs of April 2026 You Need to Act On Now
The top CVEs of April 2026 were exploited in hours. Marimo RCE, Windows IKE, Fortinet EMS, GitHub GHES, ActiveMQ, and more. Attack scenarios, risk context, and fixes.
Checkmarx and Bitwarden Just Showed That Your Pipeline Is the Attack Surface
How the Checkmarx supply chain attack compromised Bitwarden's CLI pipeline in four minutes, what was stolen, and the program design gap that made it possible.
NIST Just Changed How It Tracks and Prioritizes CVEs
NIST has changed how it enriches CVEs in the NVD. Learn what the new risk-based triage model means for your vulnerability management program, scanner data, and remediation workflows.
The Vercel Hack: How One AI Tool Compromised the Infrastructure Behind Millions of Websites
Vercel's April 2026 security breach started with one AI tool's OAuth approval. Here is the full attack chain, blast radius, and what every security team must do now.
Strobes VI Now Tracks Supply Chain Attacks, Ransomware Groups, and Threat Actors
224,487 supply chain incidents. 1,251 threat actors. Ransomware groups tracked in real time. Strobes VI now provides the threat intelligence layer that powers proactive exposure management, starting with the lessons from the Axios npm compromise.