Sam Shute

Director (Offensive Security Services)

As a Technical Director at Bastion Security, Sam has a wide range of experience, from teaching students to practical exploitation, and research.

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Career highlights

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Currently Sam's areas of focus include Red Teaming, Hardware Hacking, and Biometrics. During his time at Bastion Security (and previously Quantum Security) Sam has enjoyed compromising the networks of most major banks, government departments, and infrastructure providers in the country.

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PHP-FPM (PHP Source) - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2026-6735)

During a security engagement, Conrad Draper discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in the PHP-FPM status endpoint which was due to a lack of input sanitisation of the request URI. This affects the request URI when displaying stored content within the

Union-Based SQL Injection in ERPNext / Frappe Framework (CVE-2026-29081)

During some research, Cale discovered an authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Frappe Framework, affecting the latest version of ERPNext, including cloud-hosted instances.

TimePictra (Microchip) – Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2026-3010)

During a security engagement, Steve Nyan Lin discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in the TimePictra web application which was due to a lack of input filtering. This affects the neName parameter when creating new network elements.

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