WordPress Admin Creator – A Simple, But Effective Attack
Kayleigh Martin Malicious admin users get added to vulnerable WordPress sites often. This can happen in a variety of different ways, and sometimes the malware that creates…
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WooCommerce Skimmer Spoofs Checkout Page
Ben Martin Recently a client of ours was reporting a bogus checkout page appearing on their website. When trying to access their “my-account” page an unfamiliar prompt…
Multistage WordPress Redirect Kit
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…
Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign
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…
An Overview of Basic WordPress Hardening
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…
Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 1
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…
Malicious Redirects Through Bogus Plugin
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…
WordPress Redirect Hack via Test0.com/Default7.com
Denis Sinegubko 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…
WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
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…
Object Injection Vulnerability Affects WordPress Versions 3.7 to 5.7.1
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…
WPScan Intro: How to Scan for WordPress Vulnerabilities
Alycia Mitchell 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…