We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What was especially frustrating for the website owner was that these spammy links were not being…
Description: Unauthenticated Administrator Registration Affected Plugin: Profile Builder (Free, Pro, and Hobbyist versions affected) Affected Versions: <= 3.1.0 CVSS Score: 10.0 (Critical) CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Patched Version: 3.1.1 Earlier this week, a critical vulnerability was patched in the Profile Builder…
Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason. Living up to its name, ransomware is a type of malware where a bad actor blocks access to data or applications until payment…
A few minutes ago it was announced that Wordcamp Asia has been cancelled due to the recent COVID-19 concerns in the region. This was a very tough call, but I believe the right one. To give you some context, I’m…
Description: Improper Access Controls Affected Plugin: GDPR Cookie Consent Affected Versions: <= 1.8.2 CVSS Score: 9.0 (Critical) CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Patched Version: 1.8.3 The following post describes how improper access controls lead to a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the…
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We take a look at the annual hacked site report from GoDaddy’s Sucuri Security and the types of malware they found in various CMS and shopping cart applications. Microsoft reports they’re finding 77k webshells daily, and WP Scan’s roundup lists…
RuneScape is an extremely popular massive multiplayer online game. With over 200 million generated accounts, its claim to fame is that it’s one of the largest free MMORPG’s ever created. At the current time of writing, 1 million in-game gold…