Three vulnerabilities in LearnPress discovered

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.

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.

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…

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.

The popular WordPress plugin, Social Network Tabs, which has been downloaded over 53.000 times in the past 7 years and is used to help users share content on social media sites, left thousands of linked Twitter accounts exposed to compromise.

A Cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in WordPress plugin spam-byebye with all versions up to version 2.2.1 reported vulnerable. It is possible to launch this attack remotely and it allows for the injection of arbitrary web scripts or HTML via unspecified vectors. This would alter the appearance and would…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…