We love investigating unusual hacks. There are so many ways to compromise a website, but often it’s the same thing. When we see malicious code on web pages, our usual suspects are: Vulnerabilities in website software Trojanized software from untrusted sources (e.g. pirated themes and plugins) Stolen or brute-forced credentials (anything from FTP and SSH […]
Tag Archives: WordPress Security
Manipulating WordPress Plugin Functions to Inject Malware
Most authors of website malware usually rely on the same tricks making it easy for malware researchers to spot obfuscated code, random files that don’t belong, and malicious lines injected at the top of a file. However, it can become difficult when the malware is buried deep within the lines of code on normal files.. […]
WordPress Websites Continue to Get Hacked via MailPoet Plugin Vulnerability
The popular Mailpoet(wysija-newsletters) WordPress plugin had a serious file upload vulnerability a few months back, allowing an attacker to upload files to the vulnerable site. This issue was disclosed months ago, the MailPoet team patched it promptly. It though as many are still not getting the word, or blatantly not updating, because we are seeing […]
Conditional Malicious iFrame Targeting WordPress Web Sites
We have an email, [email protected] where we receive multiple questions a day about various forms of malware. One of the most common questions happen when our Free Security Scanner, SiteCheck, detects a spam injection or a hidden iframe and the user is unable to locate the infection in the source code. It’s not until we […]
WordFence WordPress Security Plugin Pushes a Security Update
If you are one of the many users of the WordPress Security Plugin, WordFence, we highly encourage you to update. They recently pushed out a security update that could be affecting your install. It is important to note however that what is interesting about this release is that it was actually a Low Severity issue. […]
Understanding the WordPress Security Plugin Ecosystem
As a child, did you ever play that game where you sit in a circle and one person is responsible for whispering something into one persons ear, and that message gets relayed around the circle? Wasn’t it always funny to see what the final message received would be? Oh and how it would have morphed […]
