DDoS Targeting WordPress Search
Northon Torga Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search…
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SQL Injection in Duplicate-Page WordPress Plugin
Marc-Alexandre Montpas 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…
Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja
Luke Leal We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign…
Social Warfare Vulnerability Probes
Denis Sinegubko After a recent disclosure of the Social Warfare plugin vulnerability, we’ve seen massive attacks that inject malicious JavaScripts into the plugin options. The vulnerability has…
Stored XSS Patched in WordPress 5.1.1
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…
Super Amazon Banners Plugin Gone Rogue
Krasimir Konov During a recent investigation we found the plugin Super Amazon Banners to be serving malware/spam via the domain seoranker[.]info. We suspect that the domain expired…
Multi-Vector Attack in Server Logs
John Castro We recently noticed an increase on suspicious requests in our logs which reveal a planned attack against the Social Warfare plugin. Bad actors added this…
Zero-Day Stored XSS in Social Warfare
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…
0day Vulnerability in Easy WP SMTP Affects Thousands of Sites
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…
Arbitrary Directory Deletion in WP-Fastest-Cache
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:…
Insufficient Privilege Validation in SiteGround Optimizer & Caldera Forms Pro
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…