Plesk 12 Security Updates Issued

WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation.

Product Description: MariaDB Server is one of the most popular database servers in the world. It is developed by the original creators of the ubiquitous MySQL server and it is guaranteed by the developers to remain open source software. Notable users of MariaDB include Wikipedia, WordPress.com and Google. MariaDB…

An update for Xen was just released to address two major security vulnerabilities and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

According to a Google Security Researcher who was able to defeat all of the current patches and make the vulnerability easier to exploit, they are now recommending the following unofficial patch until it is pushed upstream: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/13 Further Information: “http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx source: hostingseclist

An update for cPanel was just released to address various security vulnerabilities. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with cPanel and WHM. We recommend that you update as soon as possible.

Newsletter, a free WordPress plugin with more than 300,000 installations, was found to contain multiple vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to the takeover of an affected website. The bugs were discovered by the Wordfence team who notified the developer of the plugin.

After the drama and panic in the last few weeks regarding the changes in the control panel landscape and in particular the changes at cPanel, many are now contemplating switching control panels. But what options are currently available? An overview below.

Researchers have found a serious bug in the WP Live Chat Support plugin. This is the second time in six weeks that a vulnerability has been found in the plugin which is being used on thousands of WordPress websites. The latest bug allows hackers to inject their own code…

  Multiple vulnerabilities for the Drupal CMS have been discovered. Drupal have released versions 8.3.4 and 7.56 which contain fixes for these security vulnerabilities. We recommend that you update Drupal as soon as possible.

An update for LiteSpeed 4 & 5 was just released to address a security vulnerability within OpenSSL (CVE-2015-1793) and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

aaPanel is a free and Open source Hosting Control Panel for RHEL and Debian based systems. It is the Internationalized version for the BAOTA panel(www.bt.cn), developed in China. It allows users to manage their web server through a web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface).

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…

An update for CloudLinux CageFS was just released to address a security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. (This update was found by RACK911 Labs.)

We have been made aware of a serious security vulnerability in Bash that affects multiple operating systems and applications.

A vulnerability in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) feature of Intel processors appears relatively easy to abusive. A remote control authentication screen can be bypassed using a blank string through a proxy server. AMT lets sysadmins perform powerful tasks over a remote connection.