In the rapidly changing field of software development, application programming interfaces (APIs) are very powerful tools. They allow different applications to communicate, share data, and collaborate seamlessly, constituting approximately 71% of all web traffic. However, as APIs become more essential to our applications, they also attract cyber threats. In fact, 57% of organizations reported experiencing at least one API-related data breach in the past two years.

Every single day, billions of API calls happen across the internet. Behind your favorite applications, APIs work quietly to move data and connect systems. But with the growing use of APIs, API attacks didn’t just increase – they exploded. Take the Optus breach in September 2022, in which attackers exploited an unprotected API endpoint and accessed the personal data of up to 9.8 million customers, leading to a $10 million fine.

Coined by Gartner in 2022, continuous threat exposure management, or CTEM is a structured framework for continuously assessing, prioritizing, validating, and remediating vulnerabilities across an organization’s attack surface, enabling you to respond effectively to the most pressing threats over an ever-expanding attack surface. Reactive security is a temporary fix, not a sustainable solution.

Product Name: Dynamic Dashboard Vulnerability: Stored XSS Vulnerable Version: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 CVE: CVE-2024-47817 On October 5, 2024, the security researchers from Astra discovered a severe Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Dynamic Dashboard’s paragraph widget. The widget, used for text and markdown, has inadequate input sanitization allowing attackers to inject malicious code.

Product Name: Dynamic Dashboard Vulnerability: Stored XSS Vulnerable Version: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 CVE: CVE-2024-47817 Astra Security researchers identified a vulnerability in LocalAI, an Open-Source OpenAI alternative. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-9900, is a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the LocalAI v2.21.1 prompts, which allow malicious scripts and payloads to be input.