Wordpress

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2014
WAAR report – Web Attacks continue to increase, especially those launched from Amazon servers

The WAAR report issued by Imperva states that Web Attacks increasingly launched from Amazon servers, the overall number of attacks is also increasing. Cloud computing is considered an amazing opportunity for cybercrime, from the perspective of an attacher these powerful architectures have the necessary resources to conduct powerful attacks, and consider also that often the data archived in […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2014
WordPress and Drupal websites Vulnerable to DoS attack which can make them completely inaccessible

The popular expert Nir Goldshlager has discovered an XMLRPC vulnerability which affects millions WordPress and Drupal websites exposing them to DoS Attack. If your website is based a WordPress or Drupal CMS you need to urgently update it to the last version released due to the presence of a critical vulnerability in the implementation of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2014
Thousands of WordPress Sites hacker through MailPoet flaw

Security experts at Sucuri form have observed a surge of cyber attacks against WordPress website which are using not updated version of MailPoet plugin. A large scale attack has hit more than 50,000 websites, the attacker exploited a recently patched vulnerability in a popular plugin for the WordPress CMS. Early July, experts at security firm Sucuri discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2014
Critical flaw in TimThumb plugin menaces the WordPress world

A critical vulnerability in the WebShot feature implemented by TimThumb plugin expose WordPress instance to Remote Code Execution attacks. The popular image resizing library TimThumb used in many WordPress themes, 3rd party components and plugins is affected by a critical vulnerability which allows an attacker for certain commands to be remotely executed, without authentication, on the vulnerable website. The discovery of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2014
15 million WordPress instances run flawed SEO plugin. Fix it!

Security researchers at Sucuri firm have discovered multiple serious vulnerabilities in the popular ‘All In One SEO Pack’ plugin for WordPress. WordPress in one of most targeted CMS platforms due its large diffusion, attackers are able to compromise victim instance exploiting flaws in outdated version or in vulnerable plugins . The Netcraft internet services company, in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2014
Serious WordPress issue exposes users to hijacking even if 2FA is enabled

Unencrypted cookies leave WordPress accounts exposed to hijacking on insecure networks, even if the two-factor authentication is enabled. WordPress administrators must be aware that it is quite easy for hackers to hijack their web site if they login from the same WI-Fi connection (e.g. From a public place) even if it is protected by two-factor authentication, . […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2014
Netcraft stats on the increasing abuse for WordPress installations

More than 12,000 phishing sites analyzed by Netcraft are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, the websites were used also to serve malicious code. Netcraft internet services company published a statistic which shows that nearly 12,000 WordPress instances were compromised in February, the attackers used the popular CMS to conduct phishing campaigns against targeted family of users, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2014
162,000 WordPress instances abused for DDoS attack

Sucuri firm detected a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. The security community is threatened by a new botnet composed at least 162,000 WordPress-powered websites abused to run DDoS attacks. The technique of attack allows to flood a target with requests sent by WordPress servers that received a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2013
Thousands of hacked WordPress sites used in global scale attacks

Thousands of WordPress based websites have been hacked to compose a global scale botnet that is performing powerful DDOS attacks. I start the post with recommendations, if you are a blogger using WordPress don’t waste time and update it and all installed plugins to the latest versions! Have you done it? OK, now I can explain you what it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2013
The Security State of WordPress’ Top 50 Plugins

Checkmarx’s report analyzed the security of the top 50 most popular plugins (in general), as well as the top 10 most popular ecommerce plugins. Today we published our report “The Security State of WordPress’ Top 50 Plugins” (no reg required). This report presents Checkmarx’s research which analyzed the security of the top 50 most popular plugins […]