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Be informed about the latest WP Remote Code Execution, identified and reported publicly. WP RCE JUL 2024 is a +300% INCREASE compared to previous month. Consider for your online safety, a security AUDIT, – OR – switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin - OR - Hire professionals for managed Security.
What is RCE?
TLDR: RCE vulnerabilities are used to deploy and execute ransomware on a vulnerable domains. While these are some of the most common impacts of RCE vulnerabilities, an RCE vulnerability can provide an attacker with full access and control over the targeted site.
RCE is short for Remote Code Execution. A security flaw in software or hardware allowing arbitrary code execution. A program that is designed to exploit such a vulnerability is called an arbitrary code execution exploit. The ability to trigger arbitrary code execution over a network (especially via a wide-area network such as the Internet) is often referred to as remote code execution (RCE). Read more on wikipedia.org: Arbitrary code execution.
As these non-enforced access cases from publicly reported vulnerable plugins are on your domain, it opens unrestricted and uncontested access from a security point of view. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WP RCE JUL 2024 category:
| Ad Invalid Click Protector (AICP) | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| ARForms | Unauthenticated RCE |
| BLAZE Retail Widget | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Consulting Elementor Widgets | Remote Code Execution (RCE) |
| Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Addon | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Defender Security | Broken Authentication (RCE) |
| Depicter Slider | Arbitrary Nonce Generation (RCE) |
| Masterstudy Elementor Widgets | Remote Code Execution (RCE) |
| Pods | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| PowerPress Podcasting | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| PPOM for WooCommerce | Content Injection (RCE) |
| Seo Optimized Images 2.1.2 | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Simply Show Hooks | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Social Warfare | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Twenty20 Image Before-After | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| WooCommerce | Content Injection (RCE) |
| Woody ad snippets | Remote Code Execution (RCE) |
| WP Server Health Stats | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| Wrapper Link Elementor | Injected Backdoor (RCE) |
| YITH WooCommerce Product Add-Ons | Content Injection (RCE) |
| WP Remote Code Execution (RCE) reported in 2023: | 38 |
| WP Remote Code Execution (RCE) reported in 2024: | 41 |
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