As many of you know, WordPress is written in PHP. Finding backdoors in PHP and WordPress code can be quite tricky and sometimes almost impossible: Since backdoors could be hidden anywhere in the code and look like regular code with human coding errors, and a regular installation of WordPress consists of about 432,709 lines of …
From time to time we do forensic investigations of WordPress breakins. When we do the investigation there is often one or more backdoors placed in the filesystem or modified legit WordPress-related files in wp-includes, themes or plugins. This is not only related to WordPress but all sites running PHP such as Drupal, Magento etc. Finding …
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As part of a vulnerability research project for our WordPress Security Scanner at WPcans.com, we have been auditing popular WordPress plugins looking for security issues. While auditing the WordPress plugin Loginizer, we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability and a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This plugin is currently installed on 500,000+ websites. About the plugin According to WordPress.org: Loginizer …
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