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Be informed about the latest reported WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities. WP Security CVE SEP 2024 is a -33% DECREASE, compared to last month. Consider for your online safety, a WP/Woo SECURITY AUDIT, – OR – switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin - OR - Hire professionals for managed Security.
TLDR: the details on how to hack a specific software is made public, forcing the vendor to provide a solution (patch or upgrade), that closes that specific vulnerability. CVE is short for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. Read more on wikipedia.org: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, Common Vulnerability Scoring System, Common Weakness Enumeration.
If you are serious about your online business, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WP Security CVE SEP 2024 category:
AcyMailing SMTP Newsletter | File Upload (BAC) via acym_extractArchive Function |
Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control | Broken Access Control (BAC) |
BSK Forms Blacklist | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
Clean Login | Local File Inclusion (LFi) |
Email Address Encoder | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
Hide My Site | Unauthenticated Private Information Exposure |
LOGIN AND REGISTRATION ATTEMPTS LIMIT | IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass |
Login As Users | Broken Authentication (BAC) |
Login As Users | Broken Access Control (BAC) to Account Takeover (BAC) |
Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Sendinblue | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
Obfuscate Email | Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure (BAC) |
Shield Security | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
Theme My Login | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Update (BAC) |
WooCommerce Social Login | Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover (BAC) |
WP Armour Extended | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
WP Armour Extended | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
WP Data Access | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
WP Last Modified Info | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via lmt-post-modified-info Shortcode |
WordPress Security CVE (plugin vulnerabilities) reported in 2023: | 396 |
WordPress Security CVE (plugin vulnerabilities) reported in 2024: | 183 |
ALL WordPress CVE (core+plugin+theme vulnerabilities) reported in 2023: | 5853 |
ALL WordPress CVE (core+plugin+theme vulnerabilities) reported so far in 2024: | 4775 |
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 CVE plugins.
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