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Sunday, September 13, 2026 · generated · about 5 min read

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Patch today vendors with the most new CVEs today

Ranked by CVE count. Each vendor opens the CVE Feed filtered to that vendor and these dates.

Top developments ranked by cross-source trending

  1. Image: The Hacker News

    China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor

    News The Hacker News11 Sep5 sources

    A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with a crafted link and ended with the attacker able to do anything the logged-in user could do. Tencent, which owns

    Also in Huntress Bleeping Computer SecurityWeek +3

    CVE-2026-51990 ↗CVE-2026-69461 ↗CVE-2026-69468 ↗

  2. Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

    News The Hacker News6h ago5 sources

    Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers

    Also in The Record Bleeping Computer Infosecurity Magazine +3

  3. Plesk Backup Manager Flaw Lets Low-Privileged Users Gain Root Access to Servers

    News Cyber Security News11h ago3 sources

    A newly disclosed vulnerability in Plesk Backup Manager could allow low-privileged users to escalate privileges and gain full root access on affected Linux servers. Tracked as CVE-2026-68488, the flaw stems from a symlink race condition during subscription-content restore operations. The issue affects Plesk Obsidian installations running Plesk for Linux versions 18.0.80.6 and earlier, as well as 18.0.79.10 and earlier. Plesk for Windows is not affected. According to Plesk, the vulnerability exists in the Backup Manager workflow used to restore content belonging to a customer subscription. A…

    Also in Microsoft Security Cyber Security News Elastic Security Labs

    CVE-2026-68488 ↗CVE-2026-76023 ↗

  4. GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

    News The Hacker News11 Sep4 sources

    GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under

    Also in CCCS Alerts & Advisories CyberScoop SecurityWeek

  5. ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories

    News The Hacker News10 Sep4 sources

    A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isn’t. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already

    Also in Bleeping Computer Malwarebytes Labs Dark Reading +1

  6. CISA Warns of GitLab Path Traversal Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

    News Cyber Security News12 Sep3 sources

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical GitLab vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85706 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that attackers are actively exploiting the flaw. The issue affects GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition deployments and carries a maximum CVSS severity score of 10.0. CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability in GitLab’s repository commits API. GitLab said that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker could exploit improper path confinement and missing authentication…

    Also in CISA Alerts & Advisories Bleeping Computer

    CVE-2026-85706 ↗

  7. Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

    Research Rapid7 Blog11 Sep3 sources

    This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the watchers! New module content (16) Elasticsearch ingest-attachment Apache Tika XFA XXE Local File Read Authors: Bourbon Offensive Security Services and Jean-Marie Bourbon Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21739 contributed by kmkz Path: scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe CVE reference: CVE-2025-66516…

    Also in The Hacker News Sophos Threat Research

  8. Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent

    News Bleeping Computer12 Sep2 sources

    The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103.

    Also in SecurityWeek

    CVE-2026-85102 ↗CVE-2026-85103 ↗

  9. Containing Machine Speed Cyber Attacks Inside AI Infrastructure

    News Cyber Security News12 Sep2 sources

    A critical flaw in current security operations is assuming time is on our side. Historically, attacks progressed slowly, allowing analysts and response teams time to detect, discuss, and respond. Even severe incidents operated at a human pace. Our defenses have relied on human error, human speed, and human limitations. That era is over. AI-driven adversaries have fundamentally changed the pace of cyber conflict. They act without delay and do not follow the timelines our processes were designed for. This mismatch is most evident and most dangerous within AI infrastructure. Cybersecurity is…

    Also in The Hacker News

  10. Artifactory Under Attack: In-the-Wild Exploitation of CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018 & CVE-2026-82329

    Research Wiz Research10 Sep2 sources

    Wiz Research has identified active, in-the-wild exploitation of three critical and high-severity vulnerabilities impacting JFrog Artifactory (CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018 & CVE-2026-82329). Attackers are chaining these vulnerabilities to bypass authentication and gain administrative control.

    Also in CISA Alerts & Advisories

    CVE-2026-42016 ↗CVE-2026-42018 ↗CVE-2026-82329 ↗

Vulnerability watch what to look at, most urgent first

Details CVEProductSeverity CVSSEPSS KEVFixIn the news
Highest scoring today 10new CVEs, highest CVSS first
CVE-2026-90558 sngrepirontec Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-15451 MemberPress Corporate AccountsWordPress High 8.8 — — — — CVSS 8.8
CVE-2026-90493 Internet Download ManagerMicrosoft High 8.8 — — — — CVSS 8.8
CVE-2026-90537 AVideoWWBN High 8.2 — — — — CVSS 8.2
CVE-2026-90560 zstd-jniluben High 8.2 — — — — CVSS 8.2
CVE-2026-90651 Socket FirewallF5 High 8.1 — — — — CVSS 8.1
CVE-2026-90553 vLLMvllm-project High 7.8 — — — — CVSS 7.8
CVE-2026-90556 freecivfreeciv High 7.8 — — — — CVSS 7.8
CVE-2026-90559 snappy-javaxerial High 7.5 — — — — CVSS 7.5
CVE-2026-90668 UnrealIRCdUnrealIRCd High 7.5 — — — — CVSS 7.5

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Top developments come from the Security Feed's cross-source trending detection. Vulnerability watch comes from the CVE Feed's daily NVD and CISA KEV sync.