Website Security News
Read articles related to WordPress security, including the latest WordPress vulnerabilities disclosured in popular plugins and themes. Learn about emerging website malware infections that could impact WordPress, industry reports, and best practices to secure your WordPress websites. If your website has been hacked, check out our guide to clean hacked WordPress sites.
Recently, one of our analysts @kpetku came across a series of semi-randomised malware injections in multiple WordPress environments. Typical of spam redirect infections, the malware redirects visitors by calling malicious files hosted on third party infected websites. Interestingly, the infection stores itself as encoded content…
Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file uploads, which is where we…
Read More about Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign
We have discussed in the past how out-of-the-box security configurations tend to not be very secure. This is usually true for all software and WordPress is no exception. While there…
Many clients that we work with host and operate ecommerce websites which are frequent targets of attackers. The goal of these attacks is to steal credit card details from unsuspecting…
Read More about Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 1
Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors and website owners to malicious…
Malicious redirect is a type of hack where website visitors are automatically redirected to some third-party website: usually it’s some malicious resource, scam site or a commercial site that buys…
Read More about WordPress Redirect Hack via Test0.com/Default7.com
Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus software such as Kaspersky and…
Read More about WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
If you haven’t updated your WordPress website since October 2013, this wouldn’t affect you, but we strongly hope that is not the case! There’s a new object injection vulnerability which…
Read More about Object Injection Vulnerability Affects WordPress Versions 3.7 to 5.7.1
In this post, we look at how to use WPScan. The tool provides you a better understanding of your WordPress website and its vulnerabilities. Be sure to check out our…
Read More about WPScan Intro: How to Scan for WordPress Vulnerabilities
What does your WordPress site look like to hackers? Would it be tough to crack? Or does it have unlocked doors and unlatched windows just waiting for someone to try them? If you want to run…
Read More about WPScan Intro: How to Install the WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
Unsurprisingly, as WordPress continues to increase in popularity as an e-commerce platform, attackers continue to attempt to steal credit card information from unsuspecting clients. Currently, the WordPress plugin WooCommerce accounts for roughly a quarter of all online stores. Over recent years,…
Read More about WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks
