Since a few weeks we offer an API so you can get notified about new found vulnerabilities on your WordPress website. The first part of our API are outgoing JSON webhooks. Using webhooks you can integrate against other third party services like Slack and Zapier. The hooks is formatted as JSON, example: { “email”: “[email protected]”, …
Effective from 2019-05-01 our new name will be WPSec. The new name is short and reduces confusion with other projects. The new logo can be found below:
Building on the robust infrastructure of WordPress 5.1, another release is in the offing at the end of this month. Perhaps the most crucial thing to note with the new update – WordPress 5.2 – is that all users would have to upgrade their version of PHP to PHP 5.6.20. Following the release of …
It has been reported by W3Techs that about one-third of the top ten million sites on the web is powered by WordPress. The WordPress market share has experienced tremendous steady growth in the last few years. There has been an increase from 29.9% to 33.4% within a year. That is a great improvement. The state …
WordPress 5.1.1 is now available for automatic upgrade or download. This new WordPress version is a security and maintenance release. The release introduces 10 fixes and enhancements, including changes designed to help hosts prepare users for the minimum PHP version bump coming in WordPress 5.2 (read more here). The release also includes security fixes that …
The WordPress open-source content management system, CMS, will indicate warning in its backend admin panel whenever the site is being run on an out-of-date PHP version. The plan in place is to make the warnings display for sites making use of a PHP version preceding the 5.6.x branch (<=5.6). There will be an inclusion of …
WordPress to Show Warnings on Servers Running Outdated PHP Versions Read More »
WordPress 5.0.1 is now available and it is a security release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update all your sites immediately. Plugin authors are also encouraged to read the 5.0.1 developer notes for information on backwards-compatibility. Since some of the vulnerabilities covered in 5.0.1 might affect plugins. WordPress versions 5.0 and earlier are …
The plugin WP GDPR Compliance allows unauthenticated users to execute any action and to update any database value. If the request data form is available for unauthenticated users, even unauthenticated users are able to update the database. The plugin has more than 100 000+ active installations according to WordPress.org. WPScans.com has been updated to check for this …
Vulnerability in WordPress WP GDPR Compliance plugin Read More »
Except for the “Try Gutenberg” callout in the just released WordPress version 4.9.8 there are a ton of privacy fixes. The 4.9.8 WordPress release includes a total of 18 Privacy fixes focused on ensuring consistency and flexibility in the new personal data tools that were added in 4.9.6. Some of the privacy fixes include: The …
The following new vulnerability checks has been added to WPScans.com: Custom Permalinks <= 1.1 – Authenticated SQL Injection Custom Permalinks <= 1.1 – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Photo Gallery by WD <= 1.3.66 – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) WP Fastest Cache <= 0.8.7.4 – Blind SQL Injection WooCommerce <= 3.2.3 – Authenticated PHP Object Injection Ninja Forms …