While WordPress core is well-tested and widely used, it allows plugins to be installed. Those plugins can be developed by, well, anyone! They enable many significant enhancements to the core platform but also have the potential to compromise the security of the entire website, even when they are not activated. This begs the question, as …
Author: Duncan Jepson 22% of compromised WordPress websites occurred via vulnerabilities in their installed plugins. This was a staggering statistic to me when I first heard it. Because of this, I decided to take a bit of a dive into researching WordPress plugins and their vulnerabilities. From a defensive position, you should clearly understand the …
The WPSec team couldn’t miss such an important event as WordCamp Europe 2022. We are very excited to share the experience of this event, which will take place in the city of Porto (Portugal) between June 2 and 4, 2022. What is a WordCamp? A WordCamp is an annual community event around the free software …
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Author: Luke (@hakluke) Stephens It always blows me away to think that WordPress runs 43% of all websites, including those without a content management system (CMS) 🤯. A single open source project is responsible for such a huge part of the internet! It’s interesting to think about what might happen if a severe vulnerability was …
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PyShell is new tool made for bug bounty, ethical hacking, penetration testers or red-teamers. This tool helps you to obtain a shell-like interface on a web server to be remotely accessed. Unlike other webshells, the main goal of the tool is to use as little code as possible on the server side, regardless of the language …
I have many years of working with clients and one of the most common concerns that comes up after putting security in place is regarding the startling number of how many baddies are constantly attacking their site, especially on WordPress. Over the years, I’ve been asked dozens of times questions like: “I see hundreds of …
A new vulnerability has been discovered in the popular plugin UpdraftPlus. The plugin has more than 3 millon active installations currently and the vulnerability has a CVE identifier reserved as CVE-2022-23303. The developers behind updraftplus has made an announcement: “an update was pushed to Premium users within the hour”. Marc-Alexandre Montpas the cyber security researcher …
Cyber Security Researcher Cyku Hong from the Taiwan-based company DEVCORE has found a serious security vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WP Statistics. This plugin is installed on over 600,000 websites and the flaw makes it possible for an attacker to conduct an SQL-injection attack. The SQL-injection attack can be used to read sensitive information such as …
A critical security vulnerability was recently discovered in the Essential Addons for Elementor, a plugin that has over a million active installations on the WordPress plugin repository. The plugin is used to “enhance your Elementor page building experience with 80+ creative elements and extensions“. One of those “creative elements” is the dynamic and product gallery …
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