Serious flaw found and patched in WordPress, but it might lurk in plugins

WordPress recently patched a long-running, potentially serious vulnerability in its core code. But a similar flaw in third-party plugins could still allow hackers to take over websites that use the popular publishing software, according to German web security company RIPS Technologies. Exploiting the vulnerability requires an attacker to have access to an account with “author” privileges for the target website — a common designation for WordPress users. Once logged in, a hacker could manipulate how WordPress reads and writes files in its image database, essentially tricking the software into saving a malicious script file into a directory that typically handles photos. “An attacker who gains access to an account with at least author privileges on a target WordPress site can execute arbitrary PHP code on the underlying server, leading to a full remote takeover,” RIPS researcher Simon Scannell wrote in a blog post Tuesday. The bug — which RIPS is categorizing as a “path traversal” vulnerability — is exploitable WordPress instances […]

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Google Docs gets an API for task automation

Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is now available to all developers. […] Continue reading Google Docs gets an API for task automation

Looking for open source scripts to scan files on web server for malware [on hold]

We’re using sitelock to scan about 30 sites daily. It’s expensive and they do not meet our needs.

Are there any scripts around that will just scan our server’s files and test against patterns/new files/? Doesn’t have to be a… Continue reading Looking for open source scripts to scan files on web server for malware [on hold]

Why object injection doesn’t work but payload is stored along with session cookies on Joomla 2.5.11 unpatched?

I have read and understand object injection from this question. Then I wanted to test the security issue behind Joomla CMS Object injection through serialization.

TEST MACHINE

xammp 1.7.3 for windows
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