WooCommerce Vulnerabilities MAY 2022
Be informed about the latest WooCommerce Vulnerabilities MAY 2022 Threat Case Study, identified and reported publicly. These breaches create even more problems and vulnerability exploitation with a severe negative impact on your recovery capabilities and business future. Contact us for our WooCommerce security audit.
An approximated 2.200+ active WordPress e-shops are unable to serve their customers as planned, because of WooCommerce Vulnerabilities MAY 2022. It is a mind-boggling -93% DECREASE compared to last month. The estimated number can increase with premium versions and/or closed versions, as they are private purchases.
If you are serious about your business running an online shop, then you need to pay attention because your WooCommerce is the most crucial factor where disaster hits your customers. In this post, we will share all the latest WooCommerce Vulnerabilities to help you prevent your eshop from revenue loss and angry shoppers backlash. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WooCommerce Vulnerabilities MAY 2022 category:
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- Woo Document Preview - Arbitrary Plugin Installation, Activation and Deactivation vulnerability
- This plugin has been closed as of March 9, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Woo Audio Preview - Arbitrary Plugin Installation, Activation and Deactivation vulnerability
- This plugin has been closed as of March 9, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Lucky Wheel for WooCommerce – Spin a Sale - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- Lucky Wheel for WooCommerce – Spin a Sale - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- This plugin has been closed as of April 4, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Multiple Shipping Address Woocommerce - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability
- Active installations: 900+
- Order Listener for WooCommerce – Play Sounds Instantly on New Orders - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability
- Active installations: 300+
- Product Filter For WooCommerce Product - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability
- This plugin has been closed as of March 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Ubigeo de Perú para Woocommerce y WordPress - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability
- Active installations: 1,000+
Automate your Woocommerce, then focus on running your store and maximizing sales.
Running an online store pays you dividends beyond just having a good night's sleep, knowing your customers will find your shop working from early morning to late midnight. The competition online is stiff, and many shoppers are looking for ways to get the best deals.
Any eshop module crash hits shoppers and owners hard. Downtime always has a per hour cost! As soon as your automated selling degrades or crashes, you start losing money. This is the revenue you forfeit every hour you’re down.
Are you able to prevent this? Maybe you depend on a non-existent lifeline!
WHY IS THE COST OF DOWNTIME CRUCIAL?
Cost of Downtime (per hour) = Revenue Loss + Productivity Loss + Recovery Cost + Intangible Cost (e.g. reputation, trust) + Aftermath Cost.
REVENUE LOSS
When your online shop is down, it will not be able to generate sales or revenue. The sad part is that online, your customers immediately go to your competition. This hits hard in the long run of any business.
PRODUCTIVITY LOSS
During downtime, employees get forced to stop working or have to shift to non-revenue-incurring activities, like getting systems back online, or even worst: just simply wait till it's all back online. So, the cost of downtime increases because salaries, which are fixed costs, will be paid regardless of how much work gets done in those hours.
RECOVERY COST
The cost of downtime is not the only number to consider. Disaster recovery and resuming normal business operations can be costly as well. When outside help needs to be involved, as soon as possible, then whatever that help is, it is a pricey intervention. Also, there is no time to negotiate, as pressure builds each hour being offline.
INTANGIBLE COST
When your reputation suffers, your business suffers. Even the slightest downtime can have a significant impact on your customer's trust to shift them to your worst nightmare: jumping ship to your competition.
AFTERMATH COST
Unfortunately, the costs keep accruing even after your store is working again. At a minimum, online experts (developers, system engineers, hosting support staff) need to find the root cause, solve it and implement safeguards against future outages. Again a new costly adventure, with an urgency pressure on it.
What is Vulnerability Knowledge?
As time passes, vulnerabilities are discovered in your plugins, theme and the version of WordPress core you are using. Those vulnerabilities (or Security holes) ALWAYS become public knowledge sooner rather, than later.
