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Adobe Chrome flaw exposed WhatsApp chats
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A flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension, tracked as CVE-2026-48294 and named HermeticReader by Guardio, let any website access WhatsApp Web conversations without authentication. The attack exploited a chain of vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated, zero-click writes into extension storage. Adobe fixed the issue in version 26.5.2.3, delivered automatically to users.
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