XSS OCT 2021 - Cross-Site Scripting OCT 2021
Tailored WordPress Security Report
Be informed about the latest Cross-Site Scripting OCT 2021, identified and reported publicly. As these XSS OCT 2021 vulnerabilities have a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security, consider our FREE security AUDIT.
An estimated jaw-dropping 3.438.000+ active WordPress installations were susceptible to these attack types, considering only the publicly disclosed and available numbers. The estimated number can increase by 20-25% with premium versions as they are private purchases.
Furthermore, the initial estimation can triple if we consider (1) the already patched versions BUT NOT UPDATED by owners, as the vulnerability remains active within their domain; and (2) the closed "uncounted" versions remain active on domains already running the plugins, as nobody is maintaining security. As these owners start changing their hosting provider (due to constant unexplained issues), they actively migrate these vulnerabilities behind new / protected areas, possibly exposing other clean WP to different attack types.
It is a mind-boggling 500% increase compared to December 2020. We compare last month versus previous winter holiday season, which has the biggest shopping traffic and attack spike throughout the year. Read more about our previous reports here: ALERT:228 XSS SEP 2021 – Cross-Site Scripting SEP 2021 Blast and 11 XSS – Cross-Site Scripting – WordPress Security DEC. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the XSS OCT 2021 category:
Hire security geeks to protect your WP from publicly reported cases of XSS OCT 2021 BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! You will also protect your customers, your reputation and your online business!
- Slideshow Gallery - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Feature content in beautiful and fast JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcases on your WordPress website. Active installations: 10,000+
- eCommerce Product Catalog Plugin for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- eCommerce Product Catalog is a beautiful, easy-to-use, 100% responsive, and free product catalog plugin for WordPress eCommerce or a simple product catalog website with a request for a quote functionality. Active installations: 10,000+
- Falang multilanguage for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Falang is a multilanguage plugin for WordPress. It allows you to translate an existing WordPress site to other languages. Falang natively supports WooCommerce (product, variation, category, tag, attribute, etc.) Active installations: 600+
- Video Lessons Manager – Best Video Course LMS - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- The Video Courses Manager plugin lets users track and organize online video courses and webinars on your WordPress site. Active installations: 200+
- Ecommerce – Two Factor Authentication - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Have a completely Secure login to your WordPress e-commerce website using this FREE, Simple & very easy setup plugin. It provides two-factor authentication (2FA, MFA) whenever login to your WordPress website ensuring no unauthorized access to your website. Active installations: 10+
- Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Custom Notifications and Alerts without a hassle. Notify anyone about any action in your WordPress. With powerful Merge Tags, you can endlessly customize your messages. Set unlimited Notifications in your WordPress Admin via the beautiful and intuitive interface within 5 minutes. Active installations: 10,000+
- Media Tags - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of October 25, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- About Author Box - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Easily display an information box for the post author after or before post content. Active installations: 10+
- Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via page Parameter
- This plugin will allow you to sell subscriptions and / or memberships with PayPal on your WordPress website. Active installations: 2,000+
- Accept Donations with PayPal - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via page Parameter
- This plugin will allow you to collect PayPal donations on your website. Active installations: 30,000+
- Easy PayPal Events - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via page Parameter
- This plugin will allow you to sell etickets for your event on your website. Active installations: 2,000+
- Popup Anything – A Marketing Popup - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Popup Anything is the best popup builder and marketing plugin that helps you get more email subscribers, increase sales and grow your business. Active installations: 50,000+
- Content text slider on post - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Content text slider on post is a WordPress plugin from gopiplus. We can use this plugin to scroll the content vertically in the posts and pages. Active installations: 900+
- Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- Collect and manage event registrations with a customizable form and email template. Whether you’re holding a meetup, class, workshop, tournament, or any other kind of event, you need a way to handle registration. Our plugin makes managing event registration easy and simple. Even nontechnical users can setup the plugin and start collecting registrations within minutes. Active installations: 10,000+
- NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin automatically publishes posts from your blog to your Social Media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+(Google Plus), Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, LinkedIn, ok.ru, LiveJournal, DreamWidth, Flipboard, Instagram, Telegram, Line, Diigo, Instapaper, Pinterest, Plurk, VK.com (VKontakte), YouTube, Scoop.It, WordPress, XING etc. Active installations: 100,000+
- Contact Form by Supsystic - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Simple and powerful Contact Form Builder by Supsystic with drag-and-drop editor. No coding knowledge is required. Active installations: 10,000+
- WP-Stats - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- USAGE (CREATE STATS PAGE) Active installations: 6,000+
- Check & Log Email - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- In need of a tool that allows you to easily log and view all emails sent from WordPress? Check & Log might be just the solution for that. Active installations: 90,000+
- Shop Page WP - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Shop Page WP is the affiliate shop page plugin for your WordPress website that everyone can easily setup and use. It’s super easy to create a shop page and start adding products immediately. No technical or special skills required. Output a beautiful grid of products and place it on a shop page, or insert specific products to a blog post. Active installations: 6,000+
- Ibtana – Ecommerce Product Addons - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Ibtana – Ecommerce Product Addons is excellent for designing a highly customized product page that shows your products in a more prominent and interesting way. You can easily create unique product pages now. Active installations: 3,000+
- WP RSS Aggregator – News Feeds, Autoblogging, Youtube Video Feeds and More - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- WP RSS Aggregator is the original, most popular and most robust plugin for importing, merging, and displaying RSS feeds and Atom feeds anywhere on your site. Set up your RSS feed sources and let the plugin do the leg-work. Active installations: 60,000+
- GenerateBlocks - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Add incredible versatility to your editor without bloating it with tons of one-dimensional Gutenberg blocks. With GenerateBlocks, you can learn a handful of blocks deeply and use them to build anything. Active installations: 60,000+
- Easy Google Maps - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Create Easy Google Maps in a minute with Easy Google Maps WordPress plugin. Google Map markers with any media: video, images, links, text descriptions. Add google map with shortcode, open it in a popup or use google map widget. An ultimate solution to display google map on the contact page, routes, real estates, delivery areas and more. Active installations: 40,000+
- My Calendar - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- My Calendar does WordPress event management with richly customizable ways to display events. The plug-in supports individual event calendars within WordPress Multisite, multiple calendars displayed by categories, locations or author, or simple lists of upcoming events. Active installations: 30,000+
- Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form Plugin for WordPress – ARForms Form Builder - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- ARForms Form Builder is an outstanding WordPress form builder plugin that not just lets you create the WordPress contact forms, but you can build WordPress forms like Feedback forms, RSVP forms, and other types of forms that come with responsive design.Active installations: 500+
- Import any XML or CSV File to WordPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- WP All Import can be used for everything from migrating content from a legacy CMS to WordPress to building a store with an affiliate datafeed to displaying live stock quotes or sports scores to building a real estate portal. Active installations: 100,000+
- WP Google Fonts - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Google’s free font directory is one of the most exciting developments in web typography in a very long time. The amazing rise of this new font resource has made this plugin the most popular font plugin on WordPress and it shows no signs of stopping. Active installations: 80,000+
- Hotel Listing - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Just install and use it. The plugin will create all necessary pages, email template and settings on the plugin installation. Active installations: N/A
- Hotel Listing - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Just install and use it. The plugin will create all necessary pages, email template and settings on the plugin installation. Active installations: N/A
- Email Tracker – WordPress Email Tracking Plugin for Email Read and Click (Compatible with WooCommerce) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Email Tracker is the first and only WordPress plugin that tracks all emails for reading and clicks. Active installations: 600+
- Contact Form by Supsystic - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Simple and powerful Contact Form Builder by Supsystic with drag-and-drop editor. No coding knowledge is required. Active installations: 10,000+
- Restaurant Menu by MotoPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- MotoPress Restaurant Menu is a full-fledged WordPress food ordering system that can be smoothly integrated with your restaurant or cafe website. Active installations: 5,000+
- Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Tutor is a complete, feature-packed and robust WordPress LMS plugin to create & sell courses online easily. All the features of this learning management system hits all the checkpoints for a full-fledged online course marketplace. You can create challenging and fun quizzes, interactive lessons, powerful reports and stats making Tutor potentially the best free WordPress LMS plugin. Manage, administer and monetize your education, online school, and online courses without having to write a single line of code. Active installations: 40,000+
- LoginWP (Formerly Peter's Login Redirect) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- LoginWP (formerly Peter’s Login Redirect) lets you define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users. Also, set a redirect URL for post-registration. Active installations: 100,000+
- WOOCS – Currency Switcher for WooCommerce. Professional and Free multi currency plugin – Pay in selected currency - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- WOOCS – WooCommerce Currency Switcher is free WooCommerce multi currency switcher plugin for woocommerce, that allows your site visitors switch products prices currencies according to set currencies rates in the real time and pay in the selected currency (optionally). WOOCS is multi currency plugin that allows to add any currency to WooCommerce store. Ideal solution to make the serious WooCommerce store site in multiple currencies! Active installations: 60,000+
- WordPress Online Booking and Scheduling Plugin – Bookly - Staff Member Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Bookly is a free scheduling plugin for WordPress that allows accepting online bookings on your website and automating your reservation system. Manage your booking calendar, services, client base, save time and money – all in one place. Join more than 50,000 businesses all around the world that have already automated their online booking system! Active installations: 50,000+
- Email Log - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Email Log is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily log and view all emails that were sent from WordPress. Active installations: 60,000+
- PDF.js Viewer - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Incorporate Mozilla’s PDF.js viewer into your pages and posts via a Gutenberg block or a simple shortcode. PDF.js is a javascript library for displaying pdf pages within browsers. Active installations: 10,000+
- Get Custom Field Values - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin provides a powerful widget, shortcode (with shortcode builder tool), and template tags for easily retrieving and displaying custom field values for posts or pages. Active installations: 4,000+
- Booking Package – Appointment Booking Calendar System - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Booking Package is the easiest way to rent a room, booking a service, booking an event, or receive any kind of online booking at WordPress. Active installations: 8,000+
- Caldera Forms – More Than Contact Forms - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Caldera Form is a free and powerful WordPress plugin that creates responsive forms with a simple drag and drop editor. Caldera Forms has many free user-friendly add-ons for both beginners and web developers. Active installations: 200,000+
- Contact Form Email - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- The Contact Form to Email is a powerful and easy WordPress plugin to create contact forms and send their data email addresses. Active installations: 20,000+
- Video Gallery – Vimeo and YouTube Gallery - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Origin code has been working on an ultimate video gallery plugin for months. And you can already check the results. Active installations: 10,000+
- WordPress Popular Posts - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays your most popular posts. Active installations: 200,000+
- Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager (formerly known as “Facebook Conversion Pixel”) lets you add a Facebook Pixel to your site in a matter of minutes. Active installations: 50,000+
- WP Block and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin StopBadBots - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Bad bots consume bandwidth, put SPAM in your comments and contact form, slow down and overload your server and can hack your server, steal your content and look for vulnerability to compromise your server. Active installations: 10,000+
- User Registration, Login Form, User Profile & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- ProfilePress (formerly WP User Avatar) is a lightweight membership plugin that lets you create beautiful user profiles, member directories and frontend user registration form, login form, password reset and editing profile information. It also allows you to protect sensitive content and control user access. Active installations: 400,000+
- Modern Events Calendar Lite - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection
- Modern Events Calendar Lite - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- WordPress event calendar plugin is the best tool used for managing events websites. Modern Events Calendar is a comprehensive events management plugin. It is a FREE events management plugin which is extremely user-friendly and well-designed for displaying the events calendar on the websites, ever easier. Active installations: 100,000+
- Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Automatically generate the Featured Image from the first image in post or any custom post type only if Featured Image is not set manually. Featured Image Generation From Title. Native image search for Elementor, Gutenberg, Classic Editor. Active installations: 80,000+
- Ultimate Nofollow - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of November 3, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- NEX-Forms – Ultimate Form Builder – Contact forms and much more - Multiple Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of October 4, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- SEO Booster - SQL Injection
- This plugin has been closed as of October 5, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WP System Log - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- You will see very detailed report what people or even other plugins are doing on your site, then block or be alerted on such requests or even logout user immediately. Active installations: 60+
- Inspirational Quote Rotator - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of September 23, 2022 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- Shiny Buttons – CSS3 Button Generator for WordPress - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of September 27, 2022 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- Display Post Metadata - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- It is a useful plugin to display the metadata information and custom fields of posts and pages or custom post type. You can either display date, author, comments, views or sticky meta information and custom fields list or maybe if you like then you can display all of them. Active installations: 600+
- SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Transform your WordPress blog into a fully configurable team, club, or league website. Features a suite of sports tools including fixtures, results, automated standings, players rankings, and individual profiles for clubs, players, and staff. Active installations: 20,000+
- Login/Signup Popup ( Inline Form + Woocommerce ) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- A simple and lightweight plugin which makes registration, login & reset password process super smooth. Active installations: 20,000+
- Preview E-mails for WooCommerce - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- An Extension for WooCommerce that allows you to Preview Email Templates. Active installations: 20,000+
- Easy Registration Forms - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- This plugin has been closed as of November 12, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WordPress + Microsoft Office 365 / Azure AD | LOGIN - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- With WPO365 | LOGIN users can sign in with their corporate or school (Azure AD / Microsoft Office 365) account to access your WordPress website: No username or password required (OIDC or SAML 2.0 based SSO). Plus you can send email using Microsoft Graph instead of SMTP from your WordPress website. Active installations: 4,000+
- Backup Migration - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- Creating a backup of your site has never been easier! Active installations: 20,000+
- Smash Balloon Social Post Feed - Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update to Stored XSS
- Display Facebook posts on your WordPress site. Completely customizable, responsive, search engine crawlable, and GDPR compliant Facebook feeds. Display unlimited Facebook feeds from your Facebook page or Facebook Group, and completely match the look and feel of your site with tons of customization options! Automatically powers any Facebook oEmbeds on your site. Active installations: 200,000+
- Stylish Cost Calculator - Unauthorised AJAX Calls to Stored XSS
- Sell your products and service, collect leads, collect payments. Your users can calculate cost, ask for a quote and estimate, purchase a product, and more mor Active installations: 2,000+
- Starter Templates — Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver Builder Templates - Block Import to Stored XSS
- Create professional designed pixel perfect websites in minutes with the Starter Templates plugin. Active installations: 1+ million
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BRIEF: Cross-Site Scripting OCT 2021 is a type of security vulnerability typically found in web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.
What is Cross-Site Scripting OCT 2021?
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it.
An attacker can use XSS to send a malicious script to an unsuspecting user. The end user’s browser has no way to know that the script should not be trusted, and will execute the script. Because it thinks the script came from a trusted source, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by the browser and used with that site. These scripts can even rewrite the content of the HTML page.
What is the impact of a XSS OCT 2021 attack?
The actual impact of an XSS attack generally depends on the nature of the application, its functionality and data, and the status of the compromised user. For example:
- In a simple public application, where all users are anonymous and all information is public, the impact will often be minimal. Nothing else to steal.
- In an application holding sensitive or private/personal data, such as banking transactions, emails, or healthcare records, the impact will usually be serious.
- If the compromised user has elevated privileges within the application, then the impact will generally be critical, allowing the attacker to take full control of the vulnerable application and compromise all users, owners and their data.
What kind of XSS attacks are exploited?
- Reflected XSS, where the malicious script comes from the current HTTP request.
- Stored XSS, where the malicious script comes from the website's database.
- DOM-based XSS, where the vulnerability exists in client-side code rather than server-side code.
SOLVE TODAY any reported XSS OCT 2021 vulnerability! Do you suspect any Cross-Site Scripting OCT 2021 in your WordPress?
