A vulnerability in the Smart Slider 3 WordPress plugin, active on more than 800,000 websites, can be exploited to allow subscriber-level users access to arbitrary files on the server.

Abstract: Userspace programs depend heavily on operating system resources to execute correctly, with file access being one of the most common and critical use cases. Modern Linux distributions include ...

A hacker in 2023 was able to access an FBI server that contained some files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents released by the Department of Justice earlier this year. In a statement ...

Barrel files are convenient, but they often come with trade-offs including: Performance and memory: they artificially inflate the module graph and slow down startup times, HMR, and CI pipelines.