Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin Affecting Over One Million Sites

Introduction A severe vulnerability has been detected in Essential Addons for Elementor (from 5.4.0 through 5.7.1), a WordPress plugin with over one million active installations. This flaw was patched on May 11, 2023, but due to its severity, we believe it’s essential to raise awareness and ensure all affected users have applied the patch. Details … Read more

cPGuard – Security plugin for DirectAdmin

cPGuard – Security Plugin for DirectAdmin

OpsShield has released cPGuard version 3 for DirectAdmin servers with all features available for cPanel plugin with some extra features added. With the latest version the release tier which is version 3.16 is coming up with CentOS/RHEL/CloudLinux 8 support. Some of the exciting features in new cPGuard version for DirectAdmin includes the following Revamped UI … Read more

WordPress Easy WP SMTP plugin <= 1.3.9 - Unauthenticated arbitrary - wp_options import vulnerability

Last week, two cybersecurity companies found a Zero-Day vulnerability in WordPress SMTP Plugin. The vulnerability is located in the new import/export functionality added in v1.3.9 of Easy WP SMTP. It lets attackers exploit the lack of capability checks in the plugin’s admin_init hook to alter any values in the wp_options table. Additionally, since the admin_init … Read more

WordPress GDPR Compliance Plug-in exploited (Privilege Escalation Flaw)

Vulnerability

On the 6th of November 2018, a popular WordPress plugin known as WP GDPR Compliance plugin, which is created to help website owners with GDPR compliance, was found to contain harmful vulnerabilities for privilege escalation that could allow for arbitrary code execution. Hackers have exploited this vulnerability to attack a number of websites. The vulnerability … Read more

Install CSF firewall on cPanel server

csf firewall

Config Server Firewall (CSF) is a firewall that provides a good level of protection with easy of managing commands. From list of security plugins available, this is the widely used security tool that can protect Linux server against attacks like brute force,malware attacks, phishing etc..This is a free plugin and have well developed interface for … Read more

Disable Theme and Plugin Editors from WordPress

Security

This is a big problem, if customer using very weak password’s with default username’s like admin/administrator and etc. Even if you don’t use default username you can get it very easily. Get WordPress username https://wordpress.site/?author=1 This redirects your correct username author page and you can get easily correct username which is probably admin user. If … Read more

xo.php

Malware details

This malware trying write another malware to server, it’s using old cherry-plugin import/export file upload vulnerability. Here source code to malware: Source of xo.php Details $uri is infected server address. $url is base64 encoded remote server address, where trying download more malware and put server to remote access: http://fastwealthformula.online/callback/shell Remote file Final Words Use Malware … Read more

Wordfence Security Plugin

We found new intresting malware that infected WordPress and Wordfence Security plugin. This malware filename is random numeric with php extension. Unlink When it just executed from remote GET Request, it remove itself at first. So it’s difficult know what happened on server and what case infection to WordPress and Wordfence. wp-blog-header.php It modifying WordPress … Read more

common.php (Object Injection Vulnerability in Backup & Restore Dropbox)

WordPress plugin Backup & Restore Dropbox have PHP Object Injection Vulnerability. It’s allow remote download malware to the server. This vulnerability founded by pluginvulnerabilities.com and published it. We found that vulnerability try malware download common.php malware to server via FTP Protocol. Real Post Payload First file_get_contents download common.php malware and file_put_contents write it to server. … Read more