When using WPScan you can scan your WordPress website for known vulnerabilities within the core version, plugins, and themes. You can also find out if any weak passwords, users, and security configuration issues are present. The database at wpvulndb.com is used to check for vulnerable software and the WPScan team maintains the ever-growing list ofRead […]
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Bash – ShellShocker – Attacks Increase in the Wild – Day 1
The Bash ShellShocker vulnerability was first disclosed to the public yesterday, 2014/Sep/24. Just a few hours after the initial release, we started to see a few scans looking for vulnerable servers. Our Website Firewall (CloudProxy) had already virtually patched the vulnerability via it’s Zero Day response mechanism. This allowed us to to create sinkholes to […]
Bash Vulnerability – Shell Shock – Thousands of cPanel Sites are High Risk
The team behind the Bash project (the most common shell used on Linux) recently issued a patch for a serious vulnerability that could allow for remote command execution on servers running the vulnerable bash versions. Wait, remote command execution on bash? You are likely asking yourself, “How can someone remotely execute commands on a local […]
