Critical Vulnerabilities Found in PhpStorm, Immediate Update Advised

JetBrains announced today that it has released a security update for PhpStorm and all of its other IntelliJ-based IDEs due to a set of critical vulnerabilities: The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw in the IDE’s built-in webserver allowed an attacker to access local file system from a malicious web page without user consent. Over-permissive CORS settings allowed attackers to use …