According to recent statistics, the web design industry in the United States is now worth more than $40 billion each year. It’s why our annual survey of agencies and web pros is so eagerly anticipated — and we hope you’ll…
Phishing kits are the back end components to a phishing attack and are often designed to make it easier to deploy a phishing page. These kits are typically bundled in compressed files, such as .zip archives, and contain the entire…
On June 15, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team was made aware of a number of access control vulnerabilities that had recently been disclosed in KingComposer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. During our investigation of these vulnerabilities, we…
One widespread belief among webmasters is that attackers typically only compromise websites in a couple of ways: by exploiting vulnerabilities or stealing login credentials. Although these are certainly two of the more common attack vectors, another method is often overlooked…
On June 24, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team was made aware of a possible vulnerability in the Adning Advertising plugin, a premium plugin with over 8,000 customers. We eventually discovered 2 vulnerabilities, one of which was a critical vulnerability that…
Highlights for June 2020 Cross site scripting is still the most common vulnerability in WordPress Plugins. Bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of restrictions in critical functions and issues surrounding user input data sanitization. Massive local file inclusion…
The XML-RPC WordPress specification was developed to standardize communication between different systems, meaning that applications outside WordPress…
It’s a well-known fact that website backups are important for mitigating a plethora of site issues. They can help restore a site after a compromise or even facilitate the investigative process by providing a clean code base to compare the…