How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally
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A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in pretalx, the open-source conference call-for-proposals platform, could be exploited to perform account takeovers and potentially manipulate speaker selection outcomes. The flaw exposed conference CFP systems to attackers who could inject malicious scripts through the platform.
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