SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), was held from August 23 to August 26, 2022 in SBA Research’ home town, Vienna. Co-located with ARES for the sixth time was the International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction –… Read More
Today is Safer Internet Day! To raise awareness on the significance of how to navigate the web safely two excellent projects tackle the problem of security training and awareness from a different angle. Cyber Security Quiz Breaking down essential security topics applying the concepts of microlearning, gamification ,and… Read More
Shibboleth Identity Provider OIDC OP plugin 3.0.3 or below is prone to a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability due to an insufficient restriction of the request_uri parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to interact with arbitrary third-party HTTP services. We recommend to update Shibboleth Identity Provider OIDC OP plugin to version 3.0.4 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
On November 23, 2021 our key researcher Johanna Ullrich was interviewed for the Radio Ö1 program Journal-Panorama. The topic was “Cybercrime” and the increasing importance of Cyber Security. Here is the link to the article about the program and the record which is online until November 30,… Read More
Monsta FTP 2.10.1 or below is prone to a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the language setting due to insufficient output encoding. Read More
Monsta FTP 2.10.1 or below is prone to a server-side request forgery vulnerability due to insufficient restriction of the web fetch functionality. This allows attackers to read arbitrary local files and interact with arbitrary third-party services. Read More
Monsta FTP 2.10.1 or below allows external control of paths used in filesystem operations. This allows attackers to read and write arbitrary local files, allowing an attacker to gain remote code execution in common deployments. Read More
Alexander Schatten speaks with different experts about the current situation of complex and globally used IT systems. The participants try to answer the main question: Do we lose control over essential IT systems? Furthermore, what are the main reasons and their visible effects? A large number of topics were… Read More
The all-in-one-seo-pack plugin before 3.2.7 for WordPress (aka All in One SEO Pack) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of the SEO-specific description for posts provided by the plugin via unsafe placeholder replacement. We recommend to update the all-in-one-seo-pack plugin to version 3.2.7 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product. Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞