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How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally
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How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally

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A security researcher found a foolproof way to guarantee tech conferences accept his speaker submissions: hack their systems. CVE-2026-41241 is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in pretalx, a popular open source tool that conference organizers use to manage speaker submissions and schedules, that could allow attackers to effectively take over an organizer's session. Any user controlling searchable fields – including submission titles, speaker display names, and user names or email addresses – could inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript. When an organizer's search query matched the malicious record, the payload would execute in the organizer interface.…

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