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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code

To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance

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The state of the copyleft license

In this post, I want to go a little deeper into one important type of license: those that require sharing of modifications under certain conditions, often called “copyleft” or “reciprocal” licenses

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This blog post details an authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the WordPress core that bypasses hardening mechanisms. The vulnerability is present in the WordPress c...
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WordPress <= 5.2.3: Hardening Bypass

This blog post details an authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the WordPress core that bypasses hardening mechanisms. The vulnerability is present in the WordPress core in versions prior to 5.2.4

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Clean as You Code: How to win at Code Quality without even trying

Analyzing a legacy project can be overwhelming. Learn how to Clean as You Code to make sure that the code you release into production tomorrow is at least as good as - and probably better than! - the code that's in production today.

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Bit Rot: the silent killer

Your code is rotting right now. Every day, each one of your production services, internal tools, and open source libraries decays a little bit.

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Package management: a brief history

Application developers today are used to relying on and pulling in a number of open source libraries to help them focus on the functionality that’s important to their business.

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The simple magic of package manifests and lockfiles

If you aren’t using open source components to build your apps, you’re not living in 2019. Our research suggests 92% of professional applications are built using open source.

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BigTree is a small content management system which does not depend on many frameworks and advertises itself as user friendly and developer ready. In this blog post, we will take a look at...
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Backend SQL Injection in BigTree CMS 4.4.6

BigTree is a small content management system which does not depend on many frameworks and advertises itself as user friendly and developer ready. In this blog post, we will take a look at a few vulnerabilities we have detected in the codebase of BigTree.

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How much time do developers spend actually writing code?

In this post, we share the third of eight key findings. If you don’t wait to wait for the rest of the results, you can download the full survey report right now at the link below.

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Drive By RCE Exploit in Pimcore 6.2.0

In this technical blog post we will examine how a drive by exploit in the Pimcore release 6.2.0 allows an attacker to execute OS commands.

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WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress with over 5 million installations. We detected a code vulnerability in the way WooCommerce handles imports of products.
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WooCommerce 3.6.4 - CSRF Bypass to Stored XSS

WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress with over 5 million installations. We detected a code vulnerability in the way WooCommerce handles imports of products.

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In this blog post we analyse how the insecure extraction of a compressed TAR archive lead to a critical vulnerability in Bitbucket (CVE-2019-3397).
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Bitbucket 6.1.1 Path Traversal to RCE

In this blog post we analyse how the insecure extraction of a compressed TAR archive lead to a critical vulnerability in Bitbucket (CVE-2019-3397).

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