Web Flaws and Vulnerabilities

Timothée Allemmoz reported on the WordPress France Community Slack  that the Widget Logic plugin seemed to be hijacked. Let see this together. (TL;DR It’s infected but I’ll give you a solution to keep it!)

During my research in free extensions, or during code audits ordered by customers, I find from time to time things so simple to correct and yet so devastating that I wanted to show you one, a beautiful one.

iThemes Security is a know security plugin in the WordPress community since years. One week ago we discovered a security issue in their “Hide Backend” module, leaking the hidden login page. This ByPass Vulnerability has been patched in 7.9.1, update it if you’re using it.

This post is a response to Yoast at https://yoast.com/wordpress-security/. Yoast is a SEO company in the WordPress ecosystem since 10 years now. They are professionals without any doubts, but for SEO purposes, not for Security. After my read on that particular and recent post from them, I had to answer and fix the issues. Some […]

Reflected XSS in Newspaper, a famous theme from TagDiv on themeforest, with about 95,000 sells.