Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2023
Sicuranex’s PWNPress platform indexed over 15 million WordPress websites, it collects data related to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations Leveraging the extensive Common Crawl dataset and pushing the boundaries of data analysis, cybersecurity firm Sicuranex successfully indexed over 15 million WordPress websites using the PWNPress service. This endeavor involved parsing the entire Web Archive Text (WAT) database, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2023
Threat actors are exploiting a critical WordPress zero-day in the Ultimate Member plugin to create secret admin accounts. Hackers are actively exploiting a critical unpatched WordPress Plugin flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-3460 (CVSS score: 9.8), to create secret admin accounts. Ultimate Member is a popular user profile and membership plugin for WordPress, it allows admins to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2023
A critical authentication bypass flaw in miniOrangeâs WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, can allow gaining access to any account on a site. Wordfence researchers discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in miniOrangeâs WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to any account on a site by knowing the associated email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2023
Learn the shocking truth behind the Balada Injector campaign and find out how to protect your organization from this relentless viral invasion. A deadly cyber campaign has been working silently to undermine website security by exploiting popular WordPress plugins â infiltrating over a million websites and leaving administrators scrambling for solutions. In April 2023, Bleeping […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2023
Experts warn of an unauthenticated privilege escalation flaw in the popular Essential ‘Addons for Elementor’ WordPress plugin. Essential ‘Addons for Elementor’ WordPress plugin is a collection of 90+ creative elements and extensions Enhance that allow admins to enhance Elementor page building experience. The plugin has more than one million active installations. Researchers from PatchStack discovered that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2023
A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability is the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress exposed over 2 million sites to hacking. Assetnote researchers discovered a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29489 (CVSS score: 6.1), in the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress. The ACF field builder allows users to quickly and easily add fields to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2023
Threat actors were observed installing the abandoned Eval PHP plugin on compromised WordPress sites for backdoor deployment. Researchers from Sucuri warned that threat actors are installing the abandoned Eval PHP plugin on compromised WordPress sites for backdoor deployment. The Eval PHP plugin allows PHP code to be inserted into the pages and posts of WordPress […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2023
A patch for a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has been released for over 500,000 websites. On March 23, 2023, researchers from Wordfence observed that the âWooCommerce Payments â Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Wooâ plugin had been updated to version 5.6.2. The WooCommerce Payments plugin is a fully integrated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2023
The threat actors behind a massive AdSense fraud campaign infected 10,890 WordPress sites since September 2022. In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. The experts were tracking the campaign since September 2022, the campaignâs end goal was black […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2022
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 […]
