Astra Theme’s WordPress plugin fixed an XSS vulnerability that could lead to total site takeover and attacks on visitors. A vulnerability in the Starter Templates – Elementor, Gutenberg, and Beaver Builder Templates plugin can allow contributor-level users to entirely replace any page on the site and implant malicious JavaScript at any time. This vulnerability was first discovered … Continue reading “WordPress Plugin Starter Templates Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability Impacts Over Million Sites (CVE-2021-42360)”
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WordPress File Manager Plugin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Overview: On 1st September 2020, researchers at Wordfence published a blog regarding a remote code execution vulnerability in WordPress File Manager plugin. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute commands and upload malicious files and shells on a target website. The vulnerability currently does not have any CVE assigned to it … Continue reading “WordPress File Manager Plugin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”
Zero-days in WordPress Plugins 2020
Summary: During the past two weeks, we’ve seen a resurgence in attacks against WordPress plugins. Most of them have been briefed in below section. Description: Lets try to understand those 8 vulnerable plugins one by one. Duplicator Duplicator is one of the most popular plugins on the WordPress portal, with more than one million installs … Continue reading “Zero-days in WordPress Plugins 2020”
WordPress REST API User Enumeration Abuse
WordPress is a popular, open source, blogging tool and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. According to the latest BuiltWith statistics, a total of 18,619,652 live websites use WordPress! That figure is 5% of the total internet websites! About three months ago with the advent of WordPress 4.7, support for REpresentational State Transfer … Continue reading “WordPress REST API User Enumeration Abuse”
WordPress Neosense Theme Zero Day
WordPress is the de-facto open source content management system written in PHP with over 17,000,000 publicly (!) detected installations. Want to make money with your programming skills and WordPress? Easy peasy! Simply develop a theme or a plugin, include other open source products and start making money. It is that easy if you have decent … Continue reading “WordPress Neosense Theme Zero Day”
