Security researcher Kacper Szurek reported a reflected XSS vulnerability in the current version of Wordfence. The CVSS scoring mechanism rates the severity of this XSS vulnerability as medium. A Wordfence update 6.1.7 is released to address the XSS vulnerability.
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WordPress 4.5.2 – a security release – is just released tonight. WordPress 4.5.2 fixes a vulnerability through Plupload, the third-party library WordPress uses for uploading files.
Jim Walker from HackRepair.com posted a 2016 version of his Bad Bots .htaccess on Pastebin. I offered Jim to translate his Bad Bots .htaccess to web.config, to be used with Windows Server IIS. And here it is, learn to protect your website with this web.config file!
Using Windows Server File Server Resource Manager’s File Screens you can block vulnerable WordPress plugins from being saved on your IIS web server. In the following example, you’ll learn how to block WP DB Backup plugin system-wide on Windows Server, read on…
How to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 6.7. Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine. It allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in near real time. In this article we’ll go over the steps to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 6.7.
Marcin Probola conducted a PHP static code analysis of the top ~1000 WordPress plugins, and the results showed 103 plugins were vulnerable to at least one vulnerability type (XSS, SQL injection). This is roughly 10 percent! Marcin Probola writes that scanning results were manually verified in his spare time and delivered to official plugins@wordpress.org from 04.07.2015 to 31.08.2015. Most of reported plugins are already patched, some are not. Vulnerable and not patched plugins are already removed from official wordpress plugin repository.
Imperva’s Web Application Attack Report shows spam is WordPress’ largest security threat. Imperva, an international cyber security company founded in 2002, published its 2015 web application attack report. The report includes a thorough analysis of attack data obtained through its Web Application Firewall (or WAF).
John Blackbourn writes to Make WordPress Core that a small change to add_rewrite_rule() in [34708] means that in the upcoming WordPress 4.4 an array can be passed as the second parameter instead of a query string…
Aaron Jorbin writes to Make WordPress Core about WordPress and PHP7 (I run PHP7 and WordPress for quite some time on Saotn.org, and I think its a great step forward). For the last few months, WordPress Core has been getting ready for the upcoming release of PHP7. PHP7 is bringing a host of improvements to PHP. One of the most notably is substantial performance improvements. Benchmarks of WordPress using PHP7 are showing a 2-3x speed improvement compared to PHP5.6.
Mel Choyce writes on Make WordPress Core: we’ve turned comments off on new pages by default.. This is huge!
Do you host your WordPress website on Windows Server IIS? And are you having trouble with your web.config? I often receive questions about how to use a web.config file in WordPress on Windows Server, and which settings are important for a WordPress site. Maybe it’s because I’m a WordPress on IIS enthusiast, so here is my web.config for your convenience (really, it’s not that special).
TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart – a popular WordPress e-commerce plugin that is actively used on over 5,000 websites – contains high-risk vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise customers’ data, execute arbitrary PHP code, and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against users of WordPress installations, claim High-Tech Bridge researchers. Users are advised to disable or remove the plugin.
Where the Vevida Optimizer WordPress plugin kept plugins on all my WordPress sites up-to-date: Sucuri reports that multiple WordPress plugins are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the misuse of the add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions. These are popular functions used by developers to modify and add query strings to URLs within WordPress. If you haven’t configured automatic updates for WordPress plugins, please update NOW!
