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Security · 5h ago

Adobe Acrobat Extension Bug Exposed WhatsApp Web Data

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

A now-patched vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension, affecting over 314 million users, could have let malicious sites silently access WhatsApp Web data. Tracked as CVE-2026-48294 with a CVSS score of 7.4, the flaw was dubbed HermeticReader by Guardio Labs. Adobe has released a fix for the issue.

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The high user count makes this a significant supply-chain risk, though the actual exploitation window was likely limited.
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