1 Sep 2017

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in August 2017

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Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during August (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet): [Read more]

2 Aug 2017

Authenticated PHP Object Injection Vulnerability in Business Directory Plugin

We recently started proactively monitoring for evidence of some high risk vulnerabilities when changes are made to WordPress plugins and if we had more customers we could expand the proactive monitoring to more types of vulnerabilities. One of the types of vulnerabilities we are looking for are PHP object injection vulnerabilities since those are likely to be exploited if hackers become aware of them (unlike other types of vulnerabilities that security companies are known to overstate the impact of). Through that we came across an authenticated PHP object injection vulnerability in the plugin Business Directory Plugin.

The plugin makes the function ajax_csv_export() available to anyone logged in to WordPress through WordPress’ AJAX functionality (in the file /includes/admin/csv-export.php): [Read more]