WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022
Be informed about the latest WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022 Threat Case Study, identified and reported publicly. These breaches create even more problems and vulnerability exploitation with a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security or WordPress Hosting. Contact us for our WP Security audit.
A jaw-dropping approximated 6.595.000+ active WordPress sites are circumvented by WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022, as security relies on these measures. It is a -30% DECREASE as targeted WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities compared to last month. The estimated number can increase with premium versions and/or closed versions, as they are private purchases.
Furthermore, the initial estimation can multiply if we consider the already patched versions BUT NOT UPDATED by owners, as the vulnerability remains active within their domain. As these owners start changing their hosting provider (due to constant unexplained issues), they actively migrate these vulnerabilities behind protected areas, possibly exposing other clean WP to different attack types.
If you are serious about your business, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices. In this post, we will share all the latest WordPress plugin vulnerability reports to help you protect your website against hackers and malware. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022 category:
Patch today the publicly reported cases of WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022 BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! You will also protect your customers, your reputation and your online business!
- Bitcoin / Altcoin Faucet – Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of August 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- add2fav – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Bitcoin Satoshi Tools : Faucets, Visitor Rewarder, Satoshi Games, Referral Program – Unauthorized AJAX Call to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of August 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WP Shop – Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Change & Data Deletion
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Easy Org Chart – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of July 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- MP3-jPlayer – Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Word Search Puzzles game – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Word Search Puzzles game – Multiple Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WHA Crossword – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WHA Crossword – Multiple Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- GetResponse for WordPress – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) leading to API Key Update
- Active installations: 10.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Captcha Code – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) leading to Plugin Settings Update
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
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- WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan – User Enumeration Bypass
- This plugin has been closed as of August 18, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Pop-up – Privilege Escalation
- Active installations: 9.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WP Popup Builder – Popup Forms , Marketing PoPuP & Newsletter – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WP Popup Builder – Popup Forms , Marketing PoPuP & Newsletter – Authenticated Arbitrary Popup Deletion
- This plugin has been closed as of August 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Login Block IPs – Arbitrary Setting Update via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- SEO Smart Links – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online ranking, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP SEO Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP SEO.
- Scripts Organizer – Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- Active installations: N/A
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your loading time, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Speed Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Speed Up.
- Ketchup Restaurant Reservations – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Ketchup Restaurant Reservations – Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection (SQLi)
- This plugin has been closed as of August 29, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- BackupBuddy – Unauthenticated Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Download
- Active installations: 1+ million
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online disaster recovery, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Backup Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Backup.
- Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Active installations: 4+ million
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Frontend File Manager Plugin – Unauthenticated File Renaming
- Frontend File Manager Plugin – Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- Frontend File Manager Plugin – File Upload via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Frontend File Manager Plugin – Arbitrary Settings Update via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Active installations: 2.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- PCA Predict – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Photospace Gallery – Broken Access Control
- This plugin has been closed as of September 12, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WPGateway – Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
- Active installations: N/A
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online disaster recovery, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Backup Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Backup.
- Disable User Login – Unauthenticated Settings Update
- Active installations: 1.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Active installations: 800.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- NOTICE BOARD – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 14, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Awesome Filterable Portfolio – Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Change
- Awesome Filterable Portfolio – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 14, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- CPO Shortcodes – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 14, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- SearchWP Live Ajax Search – Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI)
- Active installations: 3.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Download Monitor – Authenticated Arbitrary File Download
- Active installations: 100.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online vigilance, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Monitoring Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Monitoring.
- Consider for your online privacy, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP GDPR Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP GDPR.
- MemberPress Downloads Add-On – Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- Active installations: N/A
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Import all XML, CSV & TXT into WordPress – Missing Authorization
- Import all XML, CSV & TXT into WordPress – Authenticated SQL Injection (SQLi)
- Active installations: 20.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online disaster recovery, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Backup Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Backup.
- Search Logger – Know What Your Visitors Search – Authenticated SQL Injection (SQLi)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WP Custom Cursors | WordPress Cursor Plugin – Arbitrary Cursor Deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- WP Custom Cursors | WordPress Cursor Plugin – Authenticated SQL Injection (SQLi)
- WP Custom Cursors | WordPress Cursor Plugin – Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 19, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- FavIcon Switcher – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 19, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Passster – Password Protection – Insecure Storage of Password
- Active installations: 10.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Customer Reviews for WooCommerce – Sensitive Information Disclosure
- Customer Reviews for WooCommerce – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Customer Reviews for WooCommerce – Authenticated Broken Access Control
- Active installations: 50.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online shop, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WooCommerce Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WooCommerce.
- Consider for your online privacy, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP GDPR Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP GDPR.
- 3D Tag Cloud – Multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 22, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Popup, Optin Form & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber – MailOptin – Unauthenticated Optin Campaign Cache Deletion
- Active installations: 30.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Backup Scheduler – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 19, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online disaster recovery, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Backup Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Backup.
- FontMeister – The Font Management Plugin – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 23, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online privacy, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP GDPR Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP GDPR.
- Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload – Contact Form 7 – File Upload Size Limit Bypass
- Active installations: 50.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- miniOrange Discord Integration – Authenticated App Disabling
- Active installations: 70+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Helpful – Information Disclosure
- This plugin has been closed as of August 26, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online privacy, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP GDPR Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP GDPR.
- Activity Log – CSV Injection
- Active installations: 200.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- TH Advance Product Search – Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Reset
- TH Advance Product Search – Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Change
- Active installations: 10.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online shop, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WooCommerce Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WooCommerce.
- Media Library Assistant – Unauthenticated Error Log Disclosure
- Active installations: 70.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Contact Bank – Contact Form Builder for WordPress – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 28, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Plugin LBstopattack – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- HREFLANG Tags Lite – Unauthenticated Plugin Data Reset
- This plugin has been closed as of 29 September 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online ranking, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP SEO Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP SEO.
- Redirection for Contact Form 7 – Unauthenticated Options Change
- Active installations: 200.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WZone – Lite Version – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 30, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- Consider for your online shop, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WooCommerce Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WooCommerce.
- Forym – Modern Discussion Forum for WordPress | Forums – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed – This item is no longer available
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- 3dady real-time web stats – Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- This plugin has been closed as of December 14, 2018 and is not available for download. Reason: Guideline Violation.
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
- WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress – VULNERAABILITY
- Active installations: 30.000+
- Consider for your online safety, switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin – OR – Hire professionals for tailored WP Security.
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Security isn’t something that you can just do once. It’s something that’s constantly evolving and you need to regularly update your site’s Security standards and conduct routine website safety checks if you want to stay protected.
There isn’t a way to 100% protect your website from hackers and other malicious attempts. But, if you want to give your site the highest level of protection possible, then it’s a good idea to update immediately these WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022. You rely on a Security guard that currently is sleeping!
Why do you need updated security?
A WordPress Security plugin provides many valuable functions, but at its most basic, a WordPress security plugin protects your website from attacks during the time it is vulnerable. WordPress security is a subject of big relevance for every single internet site proprietor. Google blacklists ~ daily 10,000+ internet domains for malware as well as ~ weekly 50,000 for phishing.
Even if your website starts protected, in time it will certainly come to be much less and less protected. It’s important to secure on your own from hackers who are continuously seeking vulnerabilities within the popular WordPress CMS.
Once hackers find and exploit these vulnerabilities, then developers will patch those holes and release an update for their users. However, there’s a time gap of weeks or even months, between the time when the vulnerability is exploited and the patch is provided. During this time you’re exposed.
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.
Can MY WordPress be hacked?
“No System Is Safe” and also WordPress is not an exemption. WordPress simply BY ITSELF is very secure. Stats reveal that 41% of hacked WordPress websites get hacked through WordPress hosting vulnerabilities, 29% through a theme, 22% through a plugin, and also 8% as a result of weak passwords. The Security of your site is only as good as the foundation it’s running on. That’s why it’s important to audit existing security measures already in place, such as WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022.
SOLVE TODAY any reported WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities OCT 2022 vulnerability! Do you suspect any security circumvention in your WordPress?