Navigating the world of website security can feel like stepping into a minefield, especially when you have to navigate threats like zero-day vulnerabilities. Zero-days are security flaws that, worryingly, remain hidden from everyone involved — from dev teams and users, to even the most conscientious vulnerability researchers. In this post, we’ll take a look at […]
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New Guide: Broken Access Control
The complexity of modern websites exposes countless potential vulnerabilities to lurking attackers. One of the most underestimated threats? Broken Access Control (BAC). The risk lies within the very machinations of your website — the systems managing who can interact with what. When correctly set, they keep unauthorized users out; when broken… Well, let’s not give […]
Critical RCE Vulnerability in Elementor WordPress Plugin
Security Risk: High Exploitation Level: Easy CVSS Score: 9.9 Vulnerability: Remote code execution (RCE) Patched Version: 3.6.3 On April 12th, an important security update was released for the Elementor plugin patching a critical remote code vulnerability which allows all authenticated users, including subscribers, to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on a vulnerable website. This […]
WPScan Intro: How to Install the WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
What does your WordPress site look like to hackers? Would it be tough to crack? Or does it have unlocked doors and unlatched windows just waiting for someone to try them? If you want to run a security test on your WordPress site that’ll reveal its weaknesses, get familiar with WPScan. Even though most hackers don’t have insider knowledge of your site’s weaknesses, there’s a lot […]
Vulnerable Plugins: June 2020 Update
This is a mid-month update to our regular Monthly Vulnerability Digest, which reveals a number of new patches for disclosed vulnerabilities. Plugin Vulnerability Patched Version Installs Elementor Page Builder Authenticated Stored XSS 2.9.10 5000000 AdRotate Authenticated SQL Injection 5.8.4 40000 Brizy – Page Builder Improper Access Controls 1.0.126 60000 Careerfy Unauthenticated XSS 3.9.0 5000 SportsPress […]
Security Advisory: Stored XSS in bbPress
Exploitation Level: Easy/Remote DREAD Score: 6/10 Vulnerability: Stored XSS Patched Version: bbPress 2.5.9 During regular research audits of our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered a Stored XSS vulnerability affecting the bbPress plugin for WordPress which is currently installed on 300,000 live websites – one of them being the popular wordpress.org support forum. Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline: AprilRead […]
A tale of a DNS exploit: CVE-2015-7547
This post was written by Marek Vavruša and Jaime Cochran, who found out they were both independently working on the same glibc vulnerability attack vectors at 3am last Tuesday. A buffer overflow error in GNU libc DNS stub resolver code was announced last week as CVE-2015-7547. While it doesn’t have any nickname yet (last year’s […]
Using WPScan: Finding WordPress Vulnerabilities
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 […]
A Different Kind of POP: The Joomla Unserialize Vulnerability
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 […]
WPScan Intro: WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
Have you ever wanted to run security tests on your WordPress website to see if it could be easily hacked? WPScan is a black box vulnerability scanner for WordPress sponsored by Sucuri and maintained by the WPScan Team, available free for Linux and Mac users. If you use Windows, you can install a virtual machineRead […]
