Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal malicious behaviour and harvest sensitive information from ecommerce websites. A recent investigation for a compromised Magento 2 website revealed a malicious injection that was capturing POST request data from site visitors. Located on the checkout page, it was found to encode captured data before saving it to […]
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Duplicated Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins
During a recent plugin audit, we noticed a weird pattern among many plugins responsible for performing a specific task: Duplicating a page or a post. With a bit of research, we came to the following conclusion: Many of these plugins came from the same source — and contained the same vulnerabilities. SQL Injections in Vulnerable […]
Top 10 Hacks & Attacks from 2019
Last year was a busy one in the world of website security. Our 2019 Threat Research Report shows that over 60% of websites we cleaned had a vulnerability at the point of infection, up 4% over 2018. SEO spam remained a universal threat, while backdoors allowed hackers to reinfect sites recovering from an initial attack. […]
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 […]
SQL Injection in Magento Core
Magento has released a new security update fixing multiple types of vulnerabilities including Cross-Site Request Forgery, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, and Remote Code Execution. To be exploited, the majority of these vulnerabilities require the attacker to be authenticated on the site and have some level of privilege. One of the bugs listed includes an SQL […]
OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part I
It is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and in order to bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we would like to start a series of post on the OWASP top 10 security risks. OWASP stands for the Open Web Application Security Project, an online community that produces articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and […]
SQLi Vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows visitors and potential customers to make wish lists containing products in the WooCommerce store, and is currently installed on 500,000+ websites. Are You at Risk? This vulnerability […]
SQL Injection in bbPress
During regular audits of our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), one of our researchers at the time, Slavco Mihajloski, discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting bbPress. If the proper conditions are met, this vulnerability is very easy to abuse by any visitors on the victim’s website. Because details about this vulnerability have been made public today on […]
SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Statistics
As part of a vulnerability research project for our Sucuri Firewall, we have been auditing popular open source projects looking for security issues. While working on the WordPress plugin WP Statistics, we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability. This plugin is currently installed on 300,000+ websites. Are You at Risk? This vulnerability is caused by the […]
SQL Injection Vulnerability in Joomla! 3.7
During regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability affecting Joomla! 3.7. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and doesn’t require a privileged account on the victim’s site. Are You at Risk? The vulnerability is caused by a new component, com_fields, which was introduced in version 3.7. If you use this version, you […]
