Nearly a million WordPress sites targeted in extensive attacks

A threat actor is actively trying to insert a backdoor into and compromise WordPress-based sites to redirect visitors to malvertising. “While our records show that this threat actor may have sent out a smaller volume of attacks in the past, it’s … Continue reading Nearly a million WordPress sites targeted in extensive attacks

My WP site just got hacked for the third time even after following WP hardening guidelines

After the second hack, we did all the necessary things written here – https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress/ , https://security.stackexchange.com/a/180925 and we also changed the file permission (wp-config.php to 400). … Continue reading My WP site just got hacked for the third time even after following WP hardening guidelines

Hackers breach Ghost blogging platform to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas
The popular open-source blogging platform Ghost has suffered a security breach in which hackers attempted to mine cryptocurrency on…
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How to exploit one or more of theese WP Statistics exploits? [closed]

I used wpscan to scan a vulnerable WordPress test-site, and found the following exploits (seen under here). I am wondering how I can exploit them?

| [!] Title: WP Statistics <= 12.6.3 – Referer Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
| Fixed … Continue reading How to exploit one or more of theese WP Statistics exploits? [closed]

Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

Justice has already been slow in this case, and the pandemic isn’t helping: His trial has been postponed for a third time. Continue reading Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

Critical WordPress e-Learning Plugin Bugs Open Door to Cheating

The flaws in LearnPress, LearnDash and LifterLMS could have allowed unauthenticated students to change their grades, cheat on tests and gain teacher privileges. Continue reading Critical WordPress e-Learning Plugin Bugs Open Door to Cheating