WordPress plugin

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2026
Critical SQL Injection bug in Ally plugin threatens 400,000+ WordPress sites

An unauthenticated SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-2413) in the Ally WordPress plugin, used on 400K+ sites, could allow attackers to steal sensitive data. An unauthenticated SQL injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-2413 (CVSS score 7.5), in Ally plugin could allow attackers to steal sensitive data. The offensive security engineer Drew Webber at Acquia discovered the vulnerability on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2024
WordPress Plugin abused to install e-skimmers in e-commerce sites

Threat actors are exploiting a WordPress plugin to insert malicious PHP code in e-commerce sites and steal credit card data. Sucuri researchers observed threat actors using a PHP snippet WordPress plugin to install malicious code in WooCommerce e-stores and harvest credit card details. In the campaign spotted by the experts, attackers use a very obscure […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
Hacking campaign targets sites using WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28121, in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin. Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28121 (CVSS score: 9.8), in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin. The flaw is an authentication bypass issue that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate arbitrary […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2023
Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin

Threat actors are actively exploiting a high-severity flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin used by more than eleven million websites WordPress security firm PatchStack warns of a high-severity vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that is currently being exploited by threat actors in the wild. Elementor Pro is a paid plugin that is currently installed on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2022
Experts warn of attacks exploiting WordPress gift card plugin

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium WordPress plugin installed by over 50,000 websites. Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-45359 (CVSS v3: 9.8), affecting the WordPress plugin YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium. The YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium plugin allows websites of online stores to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2022
Threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day in WPGateway WordPress plugin

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 February 10, 2022
Critical RCE flaws in PHP Everywhere WordPress plugin affect thousands of sites

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 January 17, 2022
High-Severity flaw in 3 WordPress plugins impacts 84,000 websites

Researchers discovered a high-severity vulnerability in three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. Researchers from WordPress security company Wordfence discovered a high-severity vulnerability that affects three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0215 is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue that received a CVSS score of 8.8. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2021
Critical 0day in the Fancy Product Designer WordPress plugin actively exploited

A critical zero-day vulnerability in the Fancy Product Designer WordPress plugin exposes more than 17,000 websites to attacks. Researchers from the Wordfence team at WordPress security company Defiant warn that a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-24370, in the Fancy Product Designer WordPress plugin is actively exploited in the wild. Fancy Product Designer is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2021
Blind SQL Injection flaw in WP Statistics impacted 600K+ sites

Experts discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in the WP Statistics plugin which is installed on over 600,000 WordPress sites. Researchers from the Wordfence Threat Intelligence discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, which is a WordPress plugin with over 600,000 active installs. The plugin was developed by VeronaLabs, it provides complete […]