Website Security News
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 a security test on your WordPress site that’ll reveal its weaknesses, get familiar with WPScan. Even though most hackers don’t…
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This is a mid-month update to our regular Monthly Vulnerability Digest, which reveals a number of new patches for disclosed vulnerabilities. Plugin Vulnerability Patched Version Installs Elementor Page Builder Authenticated…
Relevant Plugins and Vulnerabilities: Plugin Vulnerability Patched Version Installs WP Product Review Unauthenticated Stored XSS 3.7.6 40000 Form Maker by 10Web Authenticated SQL Injection — 100000 Add-on SweetAlert Contact Form…
Relevant Plugins and Vulnerabilities: Plugin Vulnerability Patched Version Installs Widget Settings Importer/Exporter Stored XSS Closed 40000 Accordion Stored/Reflected XSS 2.2.9 30000 Support Ticket System By Phoeniixx Reflected XSS Closed 2000…
With almost 300 installs, WPTF – Hybrid Composer is a framework that helps users easily create custom themes for WordPress. We recently noticed an increase in suspicious requests, revealing an…
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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 been patched in version 3.5.3…
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 and was registered by somebody…
We\’ve been cleaning many sites infected by the so-called site_url hack–the result of the WP GDPR Compliance plugin vulnerability. The sites are broken because their static resource links point to…
Years ago, colleagues from Yandex introduced the concept of Mayhem infections. In that post, they provided very detailed information about the malware, its functionalities and capabilities. The interesting point of…
