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
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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
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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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WordPress is constantly being improved in order to provide a smoother, speedier, and more secure solution to users. Trying to keep up with every new update, such as the recent WordPress 5.9 “Joséphine” performance improvements, can feel a little overwhelming. However, the latest release comes with a handful of noteworthy features. The update includes both
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AccessPress hack underlines the importance of core file monitoring Core file integrity monitoring is when a tool is in place that ensures WordPress application files are changed only during an actual WordPress upgrade. Plugins, themes or other 3rd party code should never alter core files. The Jetpack security team discovered that 93 AccessPress WordPress add-ons
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WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMSs) globally, powering more than half of websites that use CMSs we know. Unfortunately, being an incredibly convenient, user-friendly, and robust solution doesn’t automatically translate to being completely secure. With cybercrime on the rise, it’s more important than ever to take careful, proactive, and preventative
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The latest major releases of PHP have bought massive changes to the programming language. Starting from PHP 7, we’ve seen significant performance improvements. Some benchmarks even point to versions 7-8 being twice as fast as their predecessors. However, most of the websites that use PHP are still stuck with old versions of the language. Upgrading
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TL;DR: We have found no evidence that the new Trojan Source method has been used to sneak in backdoors in any of the WordPress plugins listed on WordPress.org (CVE-2021-42694 and CVE-2021-42574) A new vulnerability affecting the supply chain of Source Code for projects like Go, PHP, Python, JavaScript and many more programming languages. The vulnerability
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Update: A new CRS 4 has been released. These instructions are for CRS 3 and no longer work. In CRS 4, exclusion lists have been replaced with plugins. In this guide, you will learn how to install and protect WordPress using the Open Source Web Application Firewall (WAF) ModSecurity. We will also install the latest
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