{"id":14507,"date":"2026-07-23T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/adobe-acrobat-extension-flaw-let-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:03:30","slug":"adobe-acrobat-extension-flaw-let-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/adobe-acrobat-extension-flaw-let-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user&#8217;s WhatsApp data.<\/p>\n<p>The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardio Labs. It&#8217;s officially tracked as CVE-2026-48294 (CVSS score: 7.4), with the vulnerability<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/07\/adobe-acrobat-extension-flaw-let.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user&#8217;s WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardio Labs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}