{"id":139800,"date":"2022-05-25T04:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/screencastify-chrome-extension-flaws-allow-webcam-hijacks"},"modified":"2022-05-25T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:02:39","slug":"screencastify-chrome-extension-flaws-allow-webcam-hijacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/screencastify-chrome-extension-flaws-allow-webcam-hijacks","title":{"rendered":"Screencastify Chrome extension flaws allow webcam hijacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/screencastify-chrome-extension-flaws-allow-webcam-hijacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The popular Screencastify Chrome extension has fixed a vulnerability that allowed malicious sites to hijack users\u2019 webcams and steal recorded videos. However, security flaws still exist that could be exploited by unscrupulous insiders.<\/p>\n<p>The vendor acknowledged the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and promptly fixed it after security researcher Wladimir Palant reported it responsibly on February 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>However, the same privacy and security-related risks remain unaddressed, keeping users at potential risk from websites that partner with the Screencastify platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Screencastify Chrome extension has fixed a vulnerability that allowed malicious sites to hijack users\u2019 webcams and steal recorded videos. However, security flaws still exist that could be exploited by unscrupulous insiders. The vendor acknowledged the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and promptly fixed it after security researcher Wladimir Palant reported it responsibly on February [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}