Wordpress

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2021
SQL injection issue in Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin exposes User Data

‘Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk’ anti-spam WordPress plugin could expose user sensitive data to an unauthenticated attacker. A Time-Based Blind SQL Injection in ‘Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk’ WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2021-24295, could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to access user data. The flaw could be exploited by an attack to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2021
Zerodium will pay $300K for WordPress RCE exploits

Zero-day broker Zerodium announced that will triples payouts for remote code execution exploits for the popular WordPress content management system. Zero-day broker Zerodium has tripled the payouts for exploits for the WordPress content management system that could be used to achieve remote code execution. Zerodium announced via Twitter that is temporarily offering a $300,000 payout […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2021
Reflected XSS Vulnerability In “Ivory Search” WP Plugin Impact Over 60K sites

Researchers discovered a reflected XSS vulnerability in the Ivory Search WordPress Plugin installed on over 60,000 sites. On March 28, 2021, Astra Security Threat Intelligence Team responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in Ivory Search, a WordPress Search Plugin installed on over 60,000 sites. This security vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to perform malicious actions […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2021
Critical flaws in NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin still impact over 500K installs

The development team behind the NextGen Gallery plugin has addressed two severe CSRF vulnerabilities that could have allowed site takeover. The developers behind the NextGen Gallery plugin have fixed two critical Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities, their exploitation could lead to a site takeover, malicious redirects, spam injection, phishing, and other malicious activities. The NextGEN […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2021
TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) discovered 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded

Researchers from TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) discovered 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Italy also joins the security bug research, with the Red Team Research laboratory of TIM, an important Italian telecommunications company. Among the team’s objectives is to detect the vulnerabilities that a potential attacker could exploit to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2021
Experts addressed flaws in Popup Builder WordPress plugin

Multiple issues in WordPress ‘Popup Builder’ Plugin could be exploited by hackers to perform various malicious actions on affected websites. Developers behind the “Popup Builder – Responsive WordPress Pop up – Subscription & Newsletter” WordPress plugin have recently addressed multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to perform various malicious actions on affected websites. The plugin […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2021
Critical flaws in Orbit Fox WordPress plugin allows site takeover

Two vulnerabilities in the Orbit Fox WordPress plugin, a privilege-escalation issue and a stored XSS bug, can allow site takeover. Security experts from Wordfence have discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Orbit Fox WordPress plugin. The flaws are a privilege-escalation vulnerability and a stored XSS bug that impacts over 40,000 installs. The Orbit Fox plugin […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
5 million WordPress sites potentially impacted by a Contact Form 7 flaw

The development team behind the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin discloses an unrestricted file upload vulnerability. Jinson Varghese Behanan from Astra Security discovered an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the popular Contact Form 7 WordPress vulnerability. The WordPress plugin allows users to add multiple contact forms on their site.  “By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could simply upload files of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2020
Large-scale campaign targets vulnerable Epsilon Framework WordPress themes

Hackers are scanning the Internet for WordPress websites with Epsilon Framework themes installed to launch Function Injection attacks. Experts at the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team uncovered a large-scale wave of attacks targeting reported Function Injection vulnerabilities in themes using the Epsilon Framework. Below a list of themes and related versions that are vulnerable to the above […]