Category: Mimimi Post at a high level

Thoughts and contributions on topics in which I complain about problems that are not.

As the page breathed, it spit PHP – Podlove exploit

“How the Podlove exploit hit us and what we did about it”

How a Podlove exploit temporarily paralyzed my site – and how I tamed it

As the operator of several WordPress sites and Podlove instances, you have certain rituals: regular backups, updates, and the stoic certainty that technology usually fits in — until it doesn’t. At the end of September 2025, this certainty was confirmed by a highly critical vulnerability in Podlove Podcast Publisher Abruptly disturbed (CVE-2025-10147). What initially turned out to be ‘funny behaviour’ of the media files turned out to be a targeted exploitation of a missing file type validation: Attackers could use the image cache function to send arbitrary files, including PHP scripts, to the server. NVD+1

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Still unsuccessful on the Internet

‘Success is only for those who do something while waiting for success.’
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and entrepreneur

Yes, it will once again be necessary to revisit the painful topic of success on the Internet. I'm taking a creative break right now. Although I'm writing texts every now and then, I don't publish anything at the moment, neither videos nor blog texts. There's a podcast every now and then, but that's it.

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Success on the Internet a new edition

‘Success through achievement through success!’
Manfred Hinrich (1926 – 2015), Dr. phil., German philosopher.

Now it's been a good 2 years since I had published the text and the video unsuccessfully or successfully on the Internet and since then a lot has happened or not.

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