Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2022
Threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the WPGateway premium plugin to target WordPress websites. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team reported that threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-3180) in the WPGateway premium plugin in attacks aimed at WordPress sites. The WPGateway plugin is a premium plugin that allows users of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2022
A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress sites. A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has analyzed the backups of more than 400,000 unique web servers and discovered 47,337 malicious plugins installed on 24,931 unique WordPress websites. The experts studied […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2022
Threat actors compromise WordPress sites to display fake Cloudflare DDoS protection pages to distribute malware. DDoS Protection pages are associated with browser checks performed by WAF/CDN services which verify if the site visitor is a human or a bot. Recently security experts from Sucuri, spotted JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites to display fake DDoS Protection pages […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2022
Researchers spotted a massive campaign that scanned close to 1.6 million WordPress sites for vulnerable Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team observed a sudden increase in attacks targeting the Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. Threat actors are attempting to exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-24284. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2022
A critical vulnerability in Ninja Forms plugin potentially impacted more than one million WordPress websites In middle June, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team noticed a back-ported security update in the popular WordPress plugin Ninja Forms, which has over one million active installations. The analysis of the updates revealed that they patched a code injection vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2022
Researchers uncovered a massive hacking campaign that compromised thousands of WordPress websites to redirect visitors to scam sites. Cybersecurity researchers from Sucuri uncovered a massive campaign that compromised thousands of WordPress websites by injecting malicious JavaScript code that redirects visitors to scam content. The infections automatically redirect site visitors to third-party websites containing malicious content […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2022
WordPress forces the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin patch on 3 million sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability. WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 score of 8.5) that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2022
WordPress plugin PHP Everywhere is affected by three critical issues that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Wordfence experts found three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the PHP Everywhere WordPress plugin, all the issues have received a CVSS score of 9.9. The plugin that allows WordPress admins to insert PHP code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2022
A critical RCE in the popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor impacts hundreds of thousands of websites. Essential Addons for Elementor is a popular WordPress plugin used in over a million sites that provides easy-to-use and creative elements to improve the appearance of the pages. The plugin is affected by a critical remote code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2022
Threat actors planted a backdoor into multiple WordPress themes and plugins after compromising the website of their developer. In a classic supply chain attack, threat actors planted a backdoor in dozens of WordPress plugins and themes hosted on a developer’s website. The attack took place in the first half of September 2021, the attackers compromised […]
