Patch/Configuration Management

Security agency gives federal agencies until April 2, 2026, to make the patch.

The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-53521, allows attackers to gain complete control of affected servers through malicious traffic, enabling remote code execution (RCE).

Flaw upgraded to an actively exploited RCE, experts advise teams to patch right away.

BleepingComputer reports that at least 500,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to attacks involving a medium-severity flaw in the Smart Slider 3 plugin, which is used for image slider and content carousel creation and management.

Experts warn that the timeframe between disclosure and exploitation will continue to shrink, so teams must prepare.

U.S. computer software and services provider PTC has alerted that potential exploitation of a critical flaw in its product lifecycle management solutions FlexPLM and Windchill via trusted data deserialization could result in remote code execution, reports BleepingComputer.

Keynotes from Splunk and the SANS Institute reinforce the double-edged nature of AI.