Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A critical Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability—CVE-2025-8085—has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin “Ditty (News Ticker & Display Items)” for versions prior to 3.1.58. The issue resides in the displayItems REST API endpoint (wp-json/dittyeditor/v1/displayItems), which lacks authentication and authorization, allowing unauthenticated attackers to force the server to fetch arbitrary URLs—internal or external—via crafted JSON payloads.

In today’s digital landscape, web application security is more critical than ever. Most organizations rely on Cloud-Based Security Providers offering integrated Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), for shielding their assets from direct exposure and attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, and DDoS.

In cybersecurity, the biggest lie we tell ourselves is that our systems are safe because we think they’re not reachable. Firewalls, policies, and cloud rules look good on paper, but attackers don’t read your policies and they don’t trust your intentions. They test. If you aren’t testing from the outside too, you’re not defending, you’re guessing. And in this game, guessing gets you breached.

As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise — from customer-facing tools to backend automation — it dramatically expands the enterprise attack surface. Models, agents, apps, and data pipelines now span public and private clouds, SaaS, and edge environments, creating a sprawling, opaque risk landscape.

A new critical vulnerability has been identified in FreePBX, the widely adopted open-source, web-based graphical user interface for managing Asterisk PBX systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-57819, this flaw affects FreePBX versions 15, 16, and 17 and enables unauthenticated attackers to bypass administrator login controls. Once inside, threat actors can perform SQL Injection attacks that lead directly to remote code execution (RCE).

On August 26th, 2025, Citrix patched CVE‑2025‑7775, a memory overflow vulnerability in NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances that allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and/or denial-of-service. This threat is confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. Citrix strongly emphasized that no mitigations exist aside from applying the patch immediately.

Security teams need automation, clarity, and speed to stay ahead. This month’s updates continue to refine the CyCognito experience so you can maintain an accurate asset inventory, pivot through investigations quickly, and share the right information with stakeholders. In the past few weeks we delivered improvements across automation (including Action Rules), APIs improvements, new investigation and management options, and reporting controls for PDFs. Below is a detailed look at what is new.

Hint: EASM by itself is a means, not an end. In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, few innovations have shown as much early promise as External Attack Surface Management (EASM). Its core value proposition the ability to continuously discover, inventory, and monitor all internet-facing assets of an organization was compelling from the start. Yet, despite its utility and adoption across multiple cybersecurity disciplines, Gartner recently declared EASM an obsolete standalone product category.