Magento Web Exploit Case Studies

Ansis Ķeņģis
Magebit
Published in
2 min readApr 29, 2019

Magento is an extremely popular e-commerce platform leading market share at around 30% in e-commerce businesses and it’s handling over 50 billion dollars a year. As a result of Magento being widely used platform for many web shops, it also draws attention. Extra attention attracts hackers which is why there have been some flaws in its software causing damage to website owners and customers. This is the reason why knowing your system and software and having the best protection from attackers with latest security patches and Magento updates is crucial. Magento has an open source code version which is one of the reasons it can be exploited more often. Website potential intruders can easily analyze and test code themselves and determine which parts of the code have weaknesses. Although Enterprise version does not have free code access, many parts of software mixes and coincides with Community Edition version, enterprise version also being vulnerable. It’s always recommended to follow the latest patch and Magento updates and scan your website for security flaws regularly. In this blog post, I will go through a few of the cases of when and how Magento was vulnerable to different exploits and how they were prevented.

Full story available at https://magebit.com/blog/magento-web-exploit-case-studies.html

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