Website Security News
A new remote code execution (RCE) zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed by an anonymous researcher on the full disclosure mailing list this past Monday. This vulnerability is extremely severe. It allows any website visitors to run PHP code and shell commands on the site’s underlying…
Last week, WordPress released version 5.2.3 which was a security and maintenance update, and as such, contained many security fixes. Part of our day to day work is to analyse…
The open source PHP forum software myBB recently published a new update, version 1.8.21. This is a security release fixing a Stored XSS vulnerability in the private messaging and post…
On May 28th, a critical OS Command Injection vulnerability affecting the WP-Database-Backup plugin was disclosed to the public by the Wordfence team. This is a very nasty bug which made…
While investigating the Duplicate Page plugin, we have discovered a dangerous SQL Injection vulnerability. Though the plugin wasn’t abused externally, the vulnerability impacted over 800,000 sites. Its urgency is defined…
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Magento has released a new security update fixing multiple types of vulnerabilities including Cross-Site Request Forgery, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, and Remote Code Execution. To be exploited, the majority of…
WordPress recently released an update, 5.1.1, which patches a stored XSS vulnerability in the platform’s comment system. Even 10 days after the release of this security patch, around 60% of…
A zero-day vulnerability has just appeared in the WordPress plugin world, affecting over 70,000 sites using the Social Warfare plugin. The plugin is vulnerable to a Stored XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)…
The Easy WP SMTP plugin authors have released a new update, fixing a very critical 0day vulnerability. When leveraged, this vulnerability gives unauthenticated attackers the power to modify any options…
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The WP-Fastest-Cache plugin authors released a new update, version 0.8.9.1, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6726) present during its install alongside the WP-PostRatings plugin. According to seclists.org: “A successful attack allows an…
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While investigating the SiteGround Optimizer and Caldera Forms Pro plugins we have discovered a critical privilege escalation vulnerability. It was not being abused externally and impacts over 500,000 sites. It’s…
Read More about Insufficient Privilege Validation in SiteGround Optimizer & Caldera Forms Pro
