It’s not uncommon for bad actors to use compromised websites to send large amounts of email spam. This can cause major headaches for website owners — spam can lead to the blacklisting of a web host’s mail server IPs, or the domain name itself may be placed on blacklists like Spamhaus DBL. Reset Email Passwords […]
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PCI for SMB: Requirement 12 – Maintain an Information Security Policy
Welcome to the final post to conclude our series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS affects anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessment Questionnaires). In the previous articles written about PCI, we covered the following: Requirement 1: Build and […]
ThinkPHP 5.x Remote Code Execution
Earlier this year, we noticed an increase in attacks aiming at ThinkPHP, which is a PHP framework that is very popular in Asia. If you keep track of your site’s activity, the following log may look familiar: POST: /index.php?s=captcha HTTP/1.1 Data: _method=__construct&filter[]=system&method=get&server[REQUEST_METHOD]=uname&ipconfig In December 2018, a working exploit was released for the versions v5.0.23 and […]
From .tk Redirects to PushKa Browser Notification Scam
In the past couple of years, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into WordPress sites. This campaign leverages old vulnerabilities (patched a long time ago) found in a variety of outdated themes and plugins. However, it also adds new vulnerabilities as soon as they are disclosed—like the recent Social Warfare […]
SQL Injection in Advance Contact Form 7 DB
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL injection vulnerability affecting 40,000+ users of the Advanced Contact Form 7 DB WordPress plugin. Current State of the Vulnerability This plugin saves all Contact Form 7 submissions to the database using a friendly interface. Though the bug has been fixed […]
Attacks on Closed WordPress Plugins
The WordPress plugin repository team may “close” plugins and restrict downloads when they become aware of a security issue that the developer cannot fix quickly. However, bad actors are actively monitoring the WordPress plugin repository, paying close attention to these closed plugins. This may result in massive attacks if the attacker is able to identify the […]
DDoS Targeting WordPress Search
Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search traffic that Google does? Search engines play an important role on the internet and with how websites perform. One may say that they are the actual doorway to the online […]
SQL Injection in Duplicate-Page WordPress Plugin
While investigating the Duplicate Page plugin we have discovered a dangerous SQL Injection vulnerability. It was not being abused externally and impacts over 800,000 sites. It’s urgency is defined by the associated DREAD score that looks at damage, reproducibility, exploitability, affected users, and discoverability. A key contributor to the criticality of this vulnerability is that […]
Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja
We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This was discovered when reviewing sources of the various malicious domains used in a recent WordPress plugin exploit wave. Mass Infection of WordPress Websites The latest Easy […]
TYPO3 Overtakes WordPress as Most Attacked CMS Due to Popularity
It all started with a Twitter Poll we put out a couple of weeks ago, trying to find out what is the most used CMS by our customers. We added the usual suspects in the poll options; WordPress, Joomla, Drupal. We casually added an “Other” option, just in case someone was using a rare CMS […]

