Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
A critical privilege escalation flaw in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow registered users to gain administrator privileges. Defiant’s Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin that could allow attackers to give administrator privileges to any registered user. Rank […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
Crooks behind the WordPress WP-VCD malware are distributing pirated versions of the Coronavirus plugins that inject a backdoor into websites. behind the WordPress WP-VCD malware are distributing pirated versions of the Coronavirus plugins that inject a backdoor into websites The malware was first spotted in July 2017 by the Italian security expert Manuel D’Orso who noticed that the malicious code was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2020
Flaws in the Popup Builder WordPress plugin could allow unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code into popups of 100K+ websites. The Popup Builder WordPress plugin is affected by security flaws that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code into popups displayed on websites using it. More than 100,000 websites are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 29, 2020
Threat actors are launching a hacking campaign aimed at taking over tens of thousands of WordPress sites by exploiting critical vulnerabilities. One of the issues exploited in the attacks is a zero-day vulnerability that affects several plugins and that could allow hackers to create admin accounts and take over the sites. Researchers at NinTechNet reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2020
A new flaw was discovered in a WordPress plugin, this time experts found a zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons to create admin accounts. Security experts from WordFence have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons that was actively exploited by hackers in the wild to create user accounts with admin permissions. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2020
A serious flaw in the ThemeGrill Demo Importer WordPress theme plugin with over 200,000 active installs can be exploited to wipe sites and gain admin access to the site. Experts from the security firm WebARX have discovered a serious flaw in the WordPress theme plugin ThemeGrill Demo Importer with over 200,000 active installs. The vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2020
Developers of the popular WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin have addressed a critical bug that could potentially impact 700K users. Critical vulnerabilities in the WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin could be exploited by potential attackers to delete and change the content of the sites and inject malicious JavaScript code due to improper access controls. The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin assists users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2020
Over 200K WordPress sites are exposed to attacks due to a high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug in Code Snippets plugin. A high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug, tracked as CVE-2020-8417, in Code Snippets plugin could be exploited by attackers to take over WordPress sites running vulnerable versions of the Code Snippets plugin. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP WordPress plugins are affected by security flaws that could be exploited to take over websites running the popular CMS. Experts at security firm WebArx have ethically disclosed vulnerabilities in WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP plugins, both were patched earlier this month by the developer Revmakx. The flaws in WP Time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2019
WordPress sites running outdated versions of “Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder,” or “Ultimate Addons for Elementor” plugins are exposed to hack. Security experts from MalCare discovered a critical easy-to-exploit authentication bypass vulnerability in “Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder,” or “Ultimate Addons for Elementor.” The vulnerability resides in the way the plugins let WordPress account holders, […]
