The JomSocial team just released an update that fixes a very serious remote code execution vulnerability that affects any JomSocial version older than 3.1.0.4. From their hot-fix update: Yesterday we released version 3.1.0.4 which fixes two vulnerabilities. As a result of the first vulnerability, our own site was hacked. Thankfully, our security experts spotted the […]
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Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking
Corporations get hacked all the time. This is not news to anyone in the security business, but it has certainly received a lot of attention from those in the media over the last few weeks because of a couple of large-scale credit card events at both Target and Neiman Marcus. For the average person, website […]
Recent OptimizePress Vulnerability Being Mass Infected
A few weeks ago we wrote about a file upload vulnerability in the OptmizePress theme. We were seeing a few sites being compromised by it, but nothing major. That all changed yesterday when we detected roughly 2,000 websites compromised with iFrames that seemed to be caused by this same vulnerability. All of the contaminated websites […]
Security issue on vBulletin’s uploader.swf
The vBulletin team recently disclosed a XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerability in the uploader.swf file that is included by default on vBulletin 4 and 5. This file comes from the YUI library that is not supported anymore, so the vBulletin team is recommending everyone to remove that file asap from their installs. This is their […]
Zero Day Vulnerability in OpenX Source 2.8.11 and Revive Adserver 3.0.1
If you are using OpenX or the new Revive Adserver (fork of OpenX), you need to update it ASAP. Florian Sander discovered a serious SQL injection vulnerability that affects all versions of OpenX and all versions of the Revive Adserver. From the Revive advisory: An SQL-injection vulnerability was recently discovered and reported to the Revive […]
