This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities on April 02, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 25 Replies
In last week’s post, we reported on some concerning code identified in the Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. The plugin, which is installed alongside WordPress themes sold by Pipdig, was found to contain a number of suspicious or malicious features. Among these features were a remote “killswitch” Pipdig could use to destroy sites, an obfuscated …
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This entry was posted in Research, WordPress Security on March 29, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 36 Replies
This week, our team was notified of suspicious code present in a plugin offered alongside themes sold by Pipdig, a UK-based web development team. The user, who wishes to remain anonymous, reached out to us with concerns that the plugin’s developer can grant themselves administrative access to sites using the plugin, or even delete affected …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on March 25, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 3 Replies
In posts last week, we detailed a vulnerability in the Social Warfare plugin, and discussed the attack campaigns against it. These issues were reported widely as Cross Site Scripting (XSS) flaws, due to an unexpected disclosure and proof of concept released by an unnamed researcher. Our Threat Intelligence team quickly released a firewall rule to mitigate impact …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on March 21, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 6 Replies
In our earlier post, we issued a warning to users of the Social Warfare plugin regarding a zero-day vulnerability affecting their sites. At this time, the plugin’s developers have issued a patch for the flaw. All users are urged to update to version 3.5.3 immediately. Vulnerability Details The plugin features functionality that allows users to …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on March 21, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 3 Replies
Earlier today, an unnamed security researcher published a full disclosure of a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability present in the most recent version of popular WordPress plugin Social Warfare. The plugin, which was subsequently removed from the WordPress.org plugin repository, has an active install base of over 70,000 sites. The flaw allows attackers to inject …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on March 20, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 25 Replies
Over the weekend, a vulnerability was disclosed and patched in the popular WordPress plugin Easy WP SMTP. The plugin allows users to configure SMTP connections for outgoing email, and has a userbase of over 300,000 active installs. The vulnerability is only present in version 1.3.9 of the plugin, and all of the plugin’s users should …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on March 11, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 6 Replies
Last month, a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was patched in version 5.2.0 of the popular WordPress plugin Abandoned Cart Lite For WooCommerce. The plugin, which we’ll be referring to by its slug woocommerce-abandoned-cart, allows the owners of WooCommerce sites to track abandoned shopping carts in order to recover those sales. A lack of sanitation on …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on February 13, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 2 Replies
At the end of January, Wordfence security analysts identified attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of the commercial plugin WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder, or WP Cost Estimation for short. These flaws were found and patched by the developer a few months ago, but no official public disclosure was made at the time. Following …
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This entry was posted in Research, Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on January 25, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 6 Replies
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team recently identified multiple critical vulnerabilities in the commercial Total Donations plugin for WordPress. These vulnerabilities, present in all known versions of the plugin up to and including 2.0.5, are being exploited by malicious actors to gain administrative access to affected WordPress sites. We have reserved CVE-2019-6703 to track and reference these vulnerabilities …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on January 18, 2019 by Mikey Veenstra 10 Replies
As the most popular CMS on the market, one of the major draws of WordPress is a rich ecosystem of plugins made available by the community. The WordPress.org plugin repository makes the process of installing and updating plugins a seamless experience in the dashboard of a site, and a team of volunteers works to maintain …
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