{"id":7170,"date":"2017-01-24T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/comments-widget-exposed-many-websites-to-attacks\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:09:54","slug":"comments-widget-exposed-many-websites-to-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/comments-widget-exposed-many-websites-to-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments Widget Exposed Many Websites to Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in a popular comments widget exposed a large number of websites to attacks. The security hole was quickly patched by the product\u2019s developers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old security enthusiast named Ibram Marzouk recently discovered a stored XSS flaw in the comments section of code snippet marketplace PasteCoin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/comments-widget-exposed-many-websites-attacks\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in a popular comments widget exposed a large number of websites to attacks. The security hole was quickly patched by the product\u2019s developers.<br \/>\nA 14-year-old security enthusiast named Ibram Marzouk recently discovered a stored XSS flaw in the comments section of code snippet marketplace PasteCoin.<br \/>\nread more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}