Tag: WordPress
Facebook For WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities Lead to Site Takeover, Patch Available
The Wordfence team has discovered two critical vulnerabilities in Facebook for the WordPress plugin, which, if exploited, can lead an attacker to inject malicious...
Easy WP SMTP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Let Hackers Takeover Admin Accounts
A popular WordPress plugin has a zero-day vulnerability, which is reportedly being exploited by hackers to take over admin accounts. Easy WP SMTP, installed...
WordPress Sites Hacked For Hosting Scam E-commerce Stores
A researcher at the Akamai security team has discovered a new WordPress attack campaign, where the hackers are hosting e-commerce sites on comprised websites.
They're...
Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin Bugs Let Hackers Have Admin Privileges
The Wordfence's Threat Intelligence team has reported three critical vulnerabilities in a WordPress plugin that puts almost 100,000 sites at risk.
Named as Ultimate Member,...
KashmirBlack Botnet Exploits WordPress Sites For Mining Crypto
Researchers at Imperva has documented a botnet's operations called KashmirBlack, who were believed to be behind the attacks against WordPress, Drupal, and other CMS....
WordPress Loginizer Bugs Let Attackers Perform SQL Injection
A fairly famous WordPress plugin named Loginizer has bugs of Stored XSS and for performing an SQL injection. These were fixed in the recent...
WordPress New Feature to Turn Blog Posts into Twitter Threads
WordPress has launched a new feature in its Jetpack suite, which allows users to publish their blog stories as Twitter threads. The new addition...
Apple Forced WordPress Developer to Set In-app Payment System
Standing by its rules, Apple has just forced the WordPress founding developer, Matt Mullenweg to set in-app purchases option to continue it usually. The...
Newsletter Plug-in Vulnerability in WordPress Lets Hackers Set Backdoors
A new report by Wordfence Threat Intelligence team revealed two vulnerabilities in Newsletter plug-in of WordPress. These can be exploited by hackers to create...
Scammers Are Targeting Website Owners With Fake Extortions
Researchers at WebARX found that several website owners are being blackmailed by fake hackers, for a ransom amount of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin....