This entry was posted in Podcasts on October 17, 2020 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
On this week’s episode of Think Like a Hacker, we chat about the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability found in the Child Theme Creator by Orbisius and how attackers could use a vulnerability like this with spearphishing to wreak havoc, much like the phishing campaigns now being found on the Canva design platform. With WordPress …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on October 14, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 0 Replies
On September 9, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in Child Theme Creator by Orbisius, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. This flaw gave attackers the ability to forge requests on behalf of an administrator in order to modify arbitrary theme files and create new PHP files, which could allow an …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on October 09, 2020 by Scott Miller 0 Replies
A vulnerability discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team in the WPBakery plugin exposes over 4 million sites. High severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the Post Grid and Team Showcase plugins. The online avatar service Gravatar, has been exposed to a user enumeration technique, which could be abused to collect data on its users’ profiles, …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on October 07, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 22 Replies
On July 27th, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in WPBakery, a WordPress plugin installed on over 4.3 million sites. This flaw made it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level or above permissions to inject malicious JavaScript in posts. We initially reached out to the plugin’s team on July 28, 2020 through their support …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on October 05, 2020 by Ram Gall 0 Replies
On September 14, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team discovered two high severity vulnerabilities in Post Grid, a WordPress plugin with over 60,000 installations. While investigating one of these vulnerabilities, we discovered that almost identical vulnerabilities were also present in Team Showcase, a separate plugin by the same author with over 6,000 installations. We initially reached …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on October 02, 2020 by Scott Miller 0 Replies
Shopify reports that two rogue employees stole data from 200 merchants on their platform. A security researcher found a vulnerability in the Medium Partner Program could have allowed an attacker to steal writers’ earnings. Symantec reports that a state-sponsored hacking group has been hiding out in company networks as a part of an information-stealing campaign. …
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This entry was posted in General Security, Wordfence, WordPress Security on October 02, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 2 Replies
A few weeks ago, we reviewed some of the worst website hacks we’ve ever seen. Every one of them started with poor password choices and escalated into a disastrous event for the site owner. Strong passwords and good password hygiene are often the first line of defense. On September 29, 2020, the Wordfence Live team …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on September 25, 2020 by Scott Miller 0 Replies
Our Threat Intelligence team discovered several vulnerabilities present in XCloner Backup and Restore, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. These vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of detected persistent malicious activity traced back to LokiBot infections. …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on September 22, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 0 Replies
On August 14, our Threat Intelligence team discovered several vulnerabilities present in XCloner Backup and Restore, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. This flaw gave authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level or above capabilities, the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution on …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on September 18, 2020 by Scott Miller 0 Replies
Vulnerabilities were recently patched in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce plugin installed on over 40,000 WordPress sites. Developers from OWASP Core Rule Set said ModSecurity v3 is exposed to denial of service exploits, though the maintainers of ModSecurity reject that claim. A severe vulnerability called Zerologon in Windows Netlogon was patched in August; this bug …
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