Data Confirms A Surge In WordPress Vulnerabilities

SEJ STAFF-Roger Montti: It’s not your imagination. Report confirms an increase in WordPress vulnerabilities and they’re higher in severity WordPress security researchers at Patchstack published their annual State of WordPress Security whitepaper that showed an increase of high and critical severity vulnerabilities, highlighting the importance of security for all websites on the WordPress platform. XSS Is Top WordPress Vulnerability Of 2023 There are many kinds of vulnerabilities but the most […]

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2M+ WordPress Sites Hit By Essential Addons For Elementor Vulnerability

SEJ STAFF-Roger Montti: XSS vulnerabilities in Essential Addons for Elementor could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into WordPress websites Security researchers published an advisory on the popular Essential Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin which was discovered to contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability affecting over 2 million websites. Flaws in two different widgets that are a part of the plugin are responsible for the vulnerabilities. Two Widgets That Lead […]

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Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw to infect 3,300 sites with malware

By Bill Toulas: Hackers are breaching WordPress sites by exploiting a vulnerability in outdated versions of the Popup Builder plugin, infecting over 3,300 websites with malicious code. The flaw leveraged in the attacks is tracked as CVE-2023-6000, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting Popup Builder versions 4.2.3 and older, which was initially disclosed in November 2023. A Balada Injector campaign uncovered at the start of the year exploited the particular […]

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Hackers target WordPress database plugin active on 1 million sites

By Bill Toulas Hackers target WordPress database plugin active on 1 million sites Malicious activity targeting a critical severity flaw in the ‘Better Search Replace’ WordPress plugin has been detected, with researchers observing thousands of attempts in the past 24 hours. Better Search Replace is a WordPress plugin with more than one million installations that helps with search and replace operations in databases when moving websites to new domains or […]

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50K WordPress sites exposed to RCE attacks by critical bug in backup plugin

By: SERGIU GATLAN. A critical severity vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with more than 90,000 installs can let attackers gain remote code execution to fully compromise vulnerable websites. Known as Backup Migration, the plugin helps admins automate site backups to local storage or a Google Drive account. The security bug (tracked as CVE-2023-6553 and rated with a 9.8/10 severity score) was discovered by a team of bug hunters known as Nex Team, who reported it to […]

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