Awareness Campaign for WordPress prevention April 2019 An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure. During April 2019, a whopping 116 cases made headlines worldwide as stories. Stories to feed our constant need for breaking news and emotional fears. However, we would like to simply provide…
WordPress prevention
For your WP Security, be informed about the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins: WP Mailster Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) reported by Dewhurst Security. The WP Mailster plugin before 1.5.5 for WordPress has XSS in the unsubscribe handler via the mes parameter to view/subscription/unsubscribe2.php. immediately update to version 1.5.5 to fix vulnerability…
A MASSIVE distributed brute force attack campaign aimed only at WordPress sites started THIS MORNING at 3 AM UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), (3 AM United Kingdom, England; 4 AM Germany; 5 AM Romania). It uses a large number of attacking IPs, and each IP is generating a huge number of…