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Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign
Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file uploads, which is where we have been seeing the infections start. This plugin has...
Nulled WordPress Plugins – Dangers and Downsides
In our 2020 Threat Report, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team identified malware distributed via nulled, pirated, or counterfeit plugins and themes as one of the largest threats facing the WordPress ecosystem. Many site owners are unaware of the risks associated...
Episode 125: Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce
A critical SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in WooCommerce, the most popular e-Commerce plugin used by over 5 million WordPress sites. The WordPress.org team pushed a forced security update ensuring that over 90 versions of WooCommerce were patched. The...
Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce
Update: The article originally credited Tommy DeVoss (dawgyg) for the discovery. We’ve since been contacted by Tommy, who let us know that the credit should go to another researcher, Josh from DOS (Development Operations Security) On July 14, 2021, WooCommerce...
An Overview of Basic WordPress Hardening
We have discussed in the past how out-of-the-box security configurations tend to not be very secure. This is usually true for all software and WordPress is no exception. While there are a plethora of different ways that site owners can lock down their website, in this...
Common WordPress Vulnerabilities and Prevention Through Secure Coding Best Practices
WordPress has experienced exponential growth in the past several years and now holds over 42% of the CMS market share for all major sites. There are over 50,000 plugins available to download in the WordPress repository. That does not include the thousands of premium...
Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers and selling them on the black market. They remain an ever-growing threat to website owners. We’ve said many times...
Episode 124: PrintNightmare 0Day Exploit Accidentally Leaked Online
Security researchers accidentally leaked zero-day exploit code for a new Windows bug, now called PrintNightmare, while easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the ProfilePress plugin, previously called WP User Avatar, were patched quickly. An unprotected cloud database...
Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 2
In my previous post about ecommerce credit card swipers I described the general overview of the online ecommerce environment as well as some of the reasons behind why websites become compromised with this type of malware. In this post I will go into some more detail...
Easily Exploitable Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in ProfilePress Plugin
On May 27, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for several vulnerabilities that were discovered in ProfilePress, formerly WP User Avatar, a WordPress plugin installed on over 400,000 sites. These flaws made it...
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