At CloudFlare, we spend a lot of time talking about the PoPs (Points of Presence) we have around the globe, however, on December 14th, another kind of POP came to the world: a vulnerability being exploited in the wild against Joomla’s Content Management System. This is known as a zero day attack, where it has […]
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Website Malware – Evolution of Pseudo Darkleech
Last March we described a WordPress attack that was responsible for hidden iframe injections that resembled Darkleech injections: declarations of styles with random names and coordinates, iframes with No-IP host names, and random dimensions where the random parts changed on every page load. Back then, we identified that it was not a server-level infection. TheRead […]
Joomla SQL Injection Attacks in the Wild
Last week, the Joomla team released an update patching a serious vulnerability in Joomla 3.x. This vulnerability, an SQL injection (CVE-2015-7858), allows for an attacker to take over a vulnerable site with ease. We predicted that the attacks would start in the wild very soon, due to the popularity of the Joomla platform alongRead […]
Website Malware – The SWF iFrame Injector Evolves
Last year, we released a post about a malware injector found in an Adobe Flash (.SWF) file. In that post, we showed how a .SWF file is used to inject an invisible, malicious iFrame. It appears that the author of that Flash malware continued with this method of infection. Now we are seeing more varieties […]
Joomla! 3.3.5 Released – Fixing High Priority Security Issues
The Joomla team just released versions 3.3.5, 3.2.6 and 2.5.26, patching security issues. The first one is an Remote File Include (RFI) vulnerability and the second one is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that affect all previous versions. If you are using Joomla, stop what you are doing and update it now! What’s very […]
Security Advisory – Critical Vulnerability in the VirtueMart Extension for Joomla!
Advisory for: VirtueMart for Joomla! Security Risk: High Exploitation level: Easy/Remote Vulnerability: Access control bypass / Increase of Privilege If you’re using the popular VirtueMart Joomla! extension (more than 3,500,000 downloads), you should update right away. During a routine audit for our Website Firewall product we found a critical vulnerability that could be used by a […]
Security Advisory – Akeeba Backup for Joomla!
Advisory for: Akeeba for Joomla! Security Risk: Low Exploitation level: Difficult/Remote Vulnerability: Access control bypass If you’re a user of the very popular “Akeeba Backup for Joomla!” extension (with over 8m downloads), you need to update it right away! During a routine audit for our WAF, we found a vulnerability that could allow an attacker […]
Joomla Plugin Constructor Backdoor
We recently wrote about backdoors in pirated commercial WordPress plugins. This time it will be a short post about an interesting backdoor we found in a Joomla plugin. It was so well organized that at first we didn’t realize there was a backdoor even though we knew something was wrong. Here’s what the code of […]
JCE Joomla Extension Attacks in the Wild
Our friends from SpiderLabs, issued a warning today on their blog about increased activity on their honeypots looking to exploit the old JCE (Joomla Content Editor) vulnerability. JCE is a very popular component that can be found enabled on almost any Joomla site. It has had a few serious vulnerabilities in the past (around 2011 […]
Joomla Security Updates – Version 2.5.19 and 3.2.3 Released
The Joomla team just released 2 security updates and pushed out the stable versions for Joomla 2.5.19 and 3.2.3. If you run your site on Joomla, you need to update and apply these patches ASAP to ensure that your site continues to run securely. If you are behind our CloudProxy Firewall, we will virtually patch […]
