Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks

[ad_1] Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The…

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WordPress LiteSpeed Plugin Vulnerability Puts 5 Million Sites at Risk

[ad_1] Feb 27, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Website Security A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable unauthenticated users to escalate their privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-40000, the vulnerability was addressed in October 2023 in version 5.7.0.1. “This plugin suffers from unauthenticated site-wide stored [cross-site scripting] vulnerability and could allow…

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WordPress Plugin Alert – Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites

[ad_1] Feb 27, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Cryptojacking A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers has been credited with discovering…

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Balada Injector Infects Over 7,100 WordPress Sites Using Plugin Vulnerability

[ad_1] Jan 15, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Vulnerability Thousands of WordPress sites using a vulnerable version of the Popup Builder plugin have been compromised with a malware called Balada Injector. First documented by Doctor Web in January 2023, the campaign takes place in a series of periodic attack waves, weaponizing security flaws WordPress plugins to inject…

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Rogue WordPress Plugin Exposes E-Commerce Sites to Credit Card Theft

[ad_1] Dec 22, 2023NewsroomSkimming / Web Security Threat hunters have discovered a rogue WordPress plugin that’s capable of creating bogus administrator users and injecting malicious JavaScript code to steal credit card information. The skimming activity is part of a Magecart campaign targeting e-commerce websites, according to Sucuri. “As with many other malicious or fake WordPress…

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