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Wordpress Malware Cleanup

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May 15, 2019

How to Remove WordPress Website Defacement

Imagine, one morning, you wake up to find the look of your website all disfigured and vandalized. You are a victim of website defacement. Before jumping to conclusions lets first get to know what you are dealing with. And then we will move to the question…

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May 14, 2019

New License Key Vulnerability Identified in WordPress

We live in an era in which new technology comes out at a rate at which security features against new exploitation is unable to keep up. Every time some new tech explodes to popularity a whole host of security issues comes with it. The…

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May 11, 2019

Popular Plugin Ninja Forms Vulenrable to Arbitrary File Upload & Path Traversal

Ninja Forms, is a WordPress plugin which allows websites to facilitate creating and customizing forms just by dragging and dropping. Moreover, it is currently in use on 1 million+ websites…

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Apr 22, 2019

Is Wordpress Secure? The 2019 Analysis

You are starting a new business and want to launch a website and are looking for a robust Content Management System (CMS). Your friend suggests you WordPress as the obvious choice because of the availability of multitude themes and plug-ins and low effort basic…

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Apr 15, 2019

WordPress Vulnerability Assesment & Penetration Testing — WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

These days, Cyber attacks have become a regular phenomenon, featuring almost every week in the headlines. At times, it’s just some crazy fan printing pages from vulnerable…

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Apr 13, 2019

Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Plugin Exploited — Redirect & Adds Unauthenticated Users

The buzz around exploitation in WordPress plugin Yuzo Related Posts was not yet down when a new report of exploitation in WordPress plugin Yellow Pencil Visual theme…

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Apr 12, 2019

Wordpress Plugin Advanced Contact Form 7 DB vulnerable to SQLi

A very severe SQLi vulnerability has been uncovered in popular WordPress Plugin — Advanced Contact Form 7 DB, which has more than 40,000+ active installations. The contact form 7 vulnerability was first reported on March…

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Apr 11, 2019

The Yuzo Related Posts Plugin Exploit in WordPress

Attacks and vulnerability disclosures in WordPress do not seem to stop just yet. Another fresh exploit in one of the popular WordPress plugins- The Yuzo Related Posts plugin exploit is making headlines after it was reported that an XSS (cross…

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Apr 10, 2019

WordPress Hacked? These WordPress Vulnerabilities Could be the Reason

Managing content on the web now is just a matter of seconds affair, thanks to WordPress’s open-source structure. WordPress has been on the web since the time when blogging was only a new trend. WordPress has…

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Dec 9, 2018

WordPress Account Suspended Because of Malware. How to Fix Account Suspension by Host?