WPSec.com, Our WordPress Vulnerability Security Scanner has been updated with new functionality and reliability changes. Detect WAF – If there is a scanning problem such as a timeout, we will try to detect if there is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocking us. And if there is we will notify you via E-mail or on …
Even if WordPress 5.3 isn’t a security release there are still some interesting new security related updates in this version. Trusted CA Bundle Update The root CA bundle has been updated with new CA:s and some removed. The downside is thought that there is still some 1024 bit RSA CA certificates still in the bundle …
WordPress 5.2.4 is now available, it’s a short-cycle security release. The next major release will be version 5.3. This security release fixes six security issues. WordPress versions 5.2.3 and earlier are affected by these security bugs, which are fixed in version 5.2.4. There are also security updates to WordPress 5.1 and earlier. List of Security …
WordPress 5.2.3 has now been released. This is a security and maintenance release features 29 fixes and enhancements and adds several security fixes. These bugs affect WordPress versions 5.2.2 and earlier; version 5.2.3 fixes them, so we recommend all WordPress-users to upgrade. If you haven’t yet updated to 5.2 yet, there are also updated versions …
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What is XML-RPC? According to Wikipedia, XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. WordPress utilizes this XML-RPC that is used to exchange information between computer systems over a network. In short, it is a system that allows you to post on your WordPress blog using popular weblog clients like Windows Live …
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When it comes to complex password cracking, hashcat is the tool which comes into role as it is the well-known password cracking tool freely available on the internet. The passwords can be any form or hashes like SHA, MD5, WHIRLPOOL etc. Hashes does not allow a user to decrypt data with a specific key as …
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 …
