--- title: "How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-guarantee-a-speaker-gig-hack-the-system-literally-h6fxhs4hx source_url: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/27/pretalx-xss-flaw-exposed-conference-cfp-systems/5246598 type: article source: "The Register" published: 2026-05-27T12:01:10.047Z updated: 2026-05-27T12:02:00.435Z tags: ["security"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Security Bug in StealC Malware Panel Let Researchers Spy on Threat Actor Operations](https://daily.dev/posts/security-bug-in-stealc-malware-panel-let-researchers-spy-on-threat-actor-operations-pyhg3mo2w) · The Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How we pwned X \(Twitter\), Vercel, Cursor, Discord, and hundreds of companies through a supply-chain attack](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-pwned-x-twitter-vercel-cursor-discord-and-hundreds-of-companies-through-a-supply-chain--wdlkwwbws) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Insecure Output Handling: Exploiting XSS in LLM Applications \(Part 1\)](https://daily.dev/posts/insecure-output-handling-exploiting-xss-in-llm-applications-part-1--ujfnfv8ld) · InfoSec Write-ups · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-guarantee-a-speaker-gig-hack-the-system-literally-h6fxhs4hx)