by Peter Cornish | Jun 10, 2021 | Vulnerabilities, Wordpress
The good people over at iTheme have an updated Vulnerability Report for June 2021, and its well worth look. The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin: The Plus Addons for ElementorVulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site ScriptingPatched in Version:... 
by Peter Cornish | Mar 30, 2021 | Exploits, Hosting, news, Wordpress
We just got close to a major hack-fest that would have impacted 80+% of web sites worldwide. Don’t believe me? Read on. The WordFence team have just posted this article on how an embedded exploit nearly went live in PHP. As PHP is used in some 80% of all... 
by Peter Cornish | Mar 17, 2021 | Exploits, Wordpress
This collection on WordPress Vulnerabilities for March was sourced from iThemes. That’s right, these are the vulnerabilities for just one month! WordPress Core Vulnerabilities WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” Released A new WordPress core version was released on March... by Peter Cornish | Feb 11, 2021 | Exploits, Wordpress
I’m a big fan of plugins that provide internal WordPress protection from hackers. I call these ‘hack hardening’ plugins because their principal role is to make it more difficult for hackers to get into your website. Unfortunately, its unlikely... 
by Peter Cornish | Feb 9, 2021 | Exploits, Wordpress
Exploit Overview The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team have announced the discovery of severe vulnerabilities in NextGen Gallery, a gallery plugin used by over 800,000 WordPress sites. If your site(s) use this plugin ensure you immediately update to the latest... 
by Peter Cornish | Feb 5, 2021 | Exploits, news, Wordpress
The team at Wordfence, WordPress’ top-rated firewall plugin for WordPress have identified an issue with Contact Form 7 Style. They have not been successful to contact the plugin developer, so it remains at risk and there is no update currently If you are using... 
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