Media File Manager plugin for WordPress exploited

And yet another WordPress commercial plugin gets exploited in the wild, as Wordfence security analysts identified attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of a commercial WordPress plugin since the end of january. In this case the fairly popular WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder plugin developed by Loopus…

The Arigato Autoresponder and Newsletter by Kiboko Labs plugin allows scheduling of automated autoresponder messages and newsletters, and managing a mailing list. You can add/edit/delete and import/export members. There is also a registration form which can be placed in any website or blog.

WPBrigade, the developer behind the Simple Social Buttons plugin, have just released a fix to a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an attacker to completely take over a website.

WordPress 4.7.2 was released last Thursday, January 26th. WordPress have just announced that In addition to the three security vulnerabilities mentioned in the original release post, WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 had one additional vulnerability for which disclosure was delayed.

WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could let an attacker force their way into your site by forging authentication cookies. This was discovered and…

WordPress 4.2.3 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

The Rich Reviews plugin was removed from the WordPress.org directory on March 11, 2019. This was done due to a security issue. It appears that there is still active abuse of the XSS vulnerability found in the plugin. Wordfence estimates that the plugin has around 16,000 active installations. These…

Attackers are hijacking vulnerable home routers to launch attacks against WordPress sites. The attacks exploit two flaws in the TR-069 router management protocol to send malicious requests to port 7547. Experts have been advising home users to limit access to port 7547. Internet service providers (ISPs) could take steps…

The popular GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, which has been downloaded over 700.000 times, was temporarily removed from the WordPress.org plugin repository earlier this week after the developer was notified of a critical bug. Two days later (on February 10) a new version 1.8.3 was released. This new version contains…

A vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin called the WooCommerce Checkout Manager is potentially putting more than 60,000 websites at risk, researchers say. The WooCommerce Checkout Manager plugin allows WooCommerce users to customize and manage the fields on their checkout pages. The plugin, owned by Visser Labs, is separate…

Three vulnerabilities in LearnPress prior to version 3.1.0 have been discovered. LearnPress is a popular plugin with more than 50.000 installations for the WordPress CMS that can be used to create and sell courses online. LearnPress is similar to Moodle, an open source learning platform.

Total Donations is a commercial plugin that helps sites create donation campaigns and accept payments from their visitors and is currently used by many non-profit and political organizations who want to accept donations from donors using a donation form. Attacks on the Total Donations plugins have been tracked over…

Serious vulnerabilities in at least 11 plugins for WordPress are currently being used in an ongoing malware campaign that appears to have started last month. However, the group appears to have changed their tactics two weeks ago. Mikey Veenstra reported on the WordFence website.

Researchers have discovered authorization bypass bugs in three WordPress plugins, making a total of 400,000 WordPress websites vulnerable to cyber attacks. The affected plugins are InfiniteWP, WP Time Capsule and the WP Database Reset plugin.

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the popular Code Snippets plugin for WordPress. The flaw allowed anybody to forge a request on behalf of an administrator and inject executable code on a vulnerable site. This is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution…