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Multiple Vulnerabilities Patched in Quick Restaurant Menu Plugin
On January 16, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Quick Restaurant Menu, a WordPress plugin that allows users to set up restaurant menus on their sites.
The Wordfence 2022 State of WordPress Security Report
Today, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team is releasing our 2022 State of WordPress Security Report as a free White Paper.
Eleven Vulnerabilities Patched in Royal Elementor Addons
On December 23, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a set of 11 vulnerabilities in Royal Elementor Addons, a WordPress plugin with over 100,000 installations.
PSA: YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium Plugin Exploited in the Wild
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking exploits targeting a Critical Severity Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium, a plugin with over 50,000 installations according to the vendor.
Exploiting WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities to Steal AWS Metadata
In an ideal world, vulnerabilities would not exist. A request would be sent to a server, properly validated, and only the intended information would be provided by the server.
How Much is Your Hacked Site Worth?
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has recently concluded an investigation of online marketplaces, colloquially known as “shops” by threat actors, selling access to compromised services.
Russian Hacktivist Group Targets Political Websites with DDOS Attacks
A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at https://democrats.org with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks this morning, November 8th, 2022, which is Election Day in the United States.
Missing Authorization Vulnerability in Blog2Social Plugin
On October 5, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a Missing Authorization vulnerability in Blog2Social, a WordPress plugin installed on over 70,000 sites that allows users to set up post sharing to various social networks.
What Does The Fox Hack? Breaking Down the Anonymous Fox F-Automatical Script
While performing routine security research, one of our threat analysts discovered the latest version of a Command and Control (C2) script, which is referred to as F-Automatical within the script’s code and was commonly known as FoxAuto in older versions.
Threat Advisory: Monitoring CVE-2022-42889 “Text4Shell” Exploit Attempts
On October 17, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began monitoring for activity targeting CVE-2022-42889, or “Text4Shell” on our network of 4 million websites.
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