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How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

A critical security vulnerability was just disclosed for Livewire v3, as Stephen Rees-Carter wrote about on Securing Laravel. The vulnerability (CVE-2025-54068) allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution in specific scenarios. What makes this particularly concerning is that exploitation doesn't require authentication or user interaction - just a component mounted and configured in a particular way.

This vulnerability affects all Livewire v3 versions up to 3.6.3. If you're running any version in that range, attackers could potentially run arbitrary PHP code on your server. Stephan warns us the open-source nature of the fix means attackers may already be reverse-engineering the patch to identify and abuse the exploit.

Many production apps are probably running vulnerable versions right now, with their developers completely unaware. This is where automated security monitoring becomes invaluable - using Laravel Health to check for vulnerabilities, and optionally services like Oh Dear to send you notifications when issues are detected.

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Choosing where to spend my team’s effort

Link – frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant

It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.

Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

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