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Most of us are familiar with Neapolitan ice cream: a flavour whose distinguishing characteristic is not one single flavour but several. Many also know it as the ice cream which your roommate eats all of the chocolate, leaving you with the paltry remains of the…
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL injection vulnerability affecting 40,000+ users of the Advanced Contact Form 7 DB WordPress plugin. Current…
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…
It is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and in order to bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we would like to start a series of post on…
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows visitors and…
Read More about SQLi Vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
Recently we wrote about how GitHub/GitHub.io was used in attacks that injected cryptocurrency miners into compromised websites. Around the same time, we noticed another attack that also used GitHub for…
Read More about Malicious Website Cryptominers from GitHub. Part 2.
During regular audits of our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), one of our researchers at the time, Slavco Mihajloski, discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting bbPress. If the proper conditions are met,…
Update 11/3/2017: We are always looking for the latest to be shared with you and now we have released our WordPress Security Guide, were you can read all about vulnerabilities…
Read More about SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Statistics
During regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability affecting Joomla! 3.7 – CVE-2017-8917. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and doesn’t require a privileged account…
As part of a vulnerability research project for our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), we have been auditing multiple open source projects looking for security issues. While working on the WordPress plugin…
Read More about SQL Injection Vulnerability in NextGEN Gallery for WordPress
From the attacker’s perspective, creating ways to maintain access to a compromised website is desirable. We call them backdoors. Backdoors can be done in different ways, either by adding fake…
Read More about Unrestricted Backend Login Backdoor on OpenCart
