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 …
WordPress 4.9.2 is now available for download. This release is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. WPScans strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. We also recommend using WPScans.com to scan your WordPress installation. This release contains a critical security fix for a XSS security bug in the Media Elements library …
WPSec can now detect at least three different backdoored WordPress plugins. The plugins are: Duplicate Page and Post 2.1.0-2.1.1 No Follow All External Links 2.1.0-2.3.0 WP No External Links 4.2.1-4.3 We recommend that you run the free scan available at www.wpsec.com
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer that can provide granular visibility on traffic traversing your network. It runs on a wide variety of operating systems and can be used it to view live traffic or capture traffic to a file for offline analysis. Virtually all known network protocols are supported, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, …
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WPScans.com has been updated with the following new vulnerability checks: Content Cards <= 0.9.6 – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) WP Mailster <= 1.5.4 – Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Apocalypse Meow <= 21.2.7 – BCrypt Authentication Bypass Smart Marketing SMS and Newsletters Forms <= 1.1.1 – Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Run your free WordPress Security Scan at …
WordPress 4.9.1 has now been released. This update is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. WPScans strongly encourage you to update your WordPress sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.9 and earlier are affected by four security issues which could potentially be exploited as part of a multi-vector attack. As part of the core …
A new WordPress version was just release. This new version addresses a security problem with the $wpdb->prepare() function. From the release notes: WordPress versions 4.8.2 and earlier are affected by an issue where $wpdb->prepare() can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential SQL injection (SQLi). WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this issue, but we’ve added …
You can now connect to WPScans using the Tor onion network. WPScans is now a Hidden Service and you can use the following address to reach WPScans from TorBrowser or Tails: wpscanskzvjc4s2s.onion This is a screenshot from the Tor Browser: Screenshot from The Amnesic Incognito Live System, Tails visiting the onion url:
Nmap is one our favorite tool when it comes to security testing (except for WPSec.com). Nmap was created in 1997 by Gordon Lyon aka Fyodor. The current version 7.60 contains about 580 different NSE-scripts (Nmap Scripting Engine) used for different security checks or information gathering and about six of them are related to WordPress. Our first test is to just …
The following three new WordPress plugin vulnerability checks has been added to WPScans. More than 21 new checks for Cross-Site Scripting, XSS, CSRF, backdoors and SQL-injections: BackupGuard <= 1.1.46 – Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) WooCommerce Product Vendors Plugin <= 2.0.27 – Unauthenticated Reflected XSS Participants Database <= 1.7.5.9 – Cross-Site Scripting Display Widgets 2.6.0-2.6.3.1 – …