Recently, Avast’s researchers Pavel Novák and Jan Rubín posted a detailed writeup about the “Parrot TDS” campaign involving more than 16,500 infected websites. Such massive infections don’t go unnoticed by Sucuri and we immediately recognized that the infection in their writeup belonged to the campaign we internally refer to as “ndsw/ndsx” malware. We’ve been tracking […]
Tag Archives: WordPress Security
Vulnerability & Patch Round-up — May 2022
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. We’ve compiled a list of some important security updates and vulnerability patches for the WordPress ecosystem for May, 2022. Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Jupiter and JupiterX […]
Analyzing a WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer
The number of credit card skimmers targeting WooCommerce websites has skyrocketed over the past year, and threat actors have become increasingly creative in the different ways they obfuscate their payloads to avoid traditional detection. During a recent investigation for an infected WordPress website, we discovered an obfuscated credit card stealer hiding amongst the website’s theme […]
Massive WordPress JavaScript Injection Campaign Redirects to Ads
Our remediation and research teams regularly find malicious redirects on client sites. These infections automatically redirect site visitors to third-party websites with malicious resources, scam pages, or commercial websites with the intention of generating illegitimate traffic. As outlined in our latest hacked website report, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts […]
WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmers Concealed In Fake Images
Our research and remediation teams have noticed an increase in WooCommerce credit card skimmers on client sites over the past few years, as detailed in past blog posts. Due to the increased number of plugins and components facilitating online payments and its ease of use, WordPress has become a common e-commerce platform — and the […]
Hacked Website Threat Report 2021
Our 2021 Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. We’ve put together this analysis to help keep website owners informed and aware of the dangers posed by malicious actors. This year’s report is a collection of observations made by Sucuri’s Research […]
Vulnerability Roundup – April 2022
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. To help educate website owners on emerging threats to their environments, we’ve compiled a list of important security updates and vulnerability patches for the WordPress ecosystem this […]
Keeping Up With PHP Updates
Staying on top of critical security risks and vulnerabilities is imperative for the safety of your website. Some of the types of threats impacting our client sites include injections, broken authentication, cross site scripting, or even attackers targeting components with known vulnerabilities. In this post, we’ll be going over why outdated PHP versions can lead to […]
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 […]
The Case for 2FA by Default for WordPress
Administrator panel compromises are one of the most common attacks that everyday WordPress website admins face. We work with thousands of clients who have encountered attacks on their websites and I’ve long ago lost count of the number of times that I’ve told clients that the point of entry was their WordPress login page. Brute […]
