<p align="justify">This article covers our public notifications related to major security issues our clients and the WordPress community should know about. We are always focused on <a href="https://pagely.com/solutions/secure-wordpress-hosting/">prevention and the mitigation of risk to our clients</a>, and keeping you updated here is part of that process.<!--more--></p> <h3 align="justify">List of Vulnerable Plugins During This Month</h3> <p style="text-align: center"><style type="text/css" name="visualizer-custom-css" id="customcss-visualizer-21824"></style><div id="visualizer-21824-152652516"class="visualizer-front visualizer-front-21824"></div><!-- Not showing structured data for chart 21824 because title is empty --></p> <h3>Plugins Closed by WordPress Security</h3> <p style="text-align: center"><style type="text/css" name="visualizer-custom-css" id="customcss-visualizer-21828"></style><div id="visualizer-21828-674770410"class="visualizer-front visualizer-front-21828"></div><!-- Not showing structured data for chart 21828 because title is empty --></p> <p align="justify">WordPress security team decides to close a plugin when a security issue is found and the developer doesn’t release a patch in a timely manner. You can read more about this <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/alerts-and-warnings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <h3 align="justify">Relevant Vulnerabilities</h3> <p align="justify"><a href="https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10478" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">secure-file-manager</a>:<br /> <b>Authenticated File Upload</b></p> <p align="justify"><a href="https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10471" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ait-csv-import-export</a>:<br /> <b>Unauthenticated File Upload</b></p> <p align="justify"><a href="https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10457" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">augmented-reality</a>:<br /> <b>Unauthenticated File Upload</b></p> <p align="justify">These plugins have critical vulnerabilities that when exploited would give an attacker complete control over your website. All of them are closed, which means no new installs are allowed but old installs will work without any issues, thus, please check if you have any of them installed <i>(</i><b><i>even if it’s not activated</i></b>) and remove them from your plugins folder.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10479" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">woocommerce-anti-fraud</a>:<br /> <b>Unauthenticated Order Status Manipulation</b></p> <p align="justify">Versions < 3.3 of this plugin have a bug that when exploited could cause unnecessary damage to your online store. An unauthenticated attacker would be able to change the status of all the orders making it difficult to handle them since the data will not be reliable. On <strong>November 23</strong> the developer released a <a href="https://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-anti-fraud/changelog.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new version</a>.</p>
This article covers our public notifications related to major security issues our clients and the WordPress community should know about. We are always focused on prevention and the mitigation of risk to our clients, and keeping you updated here is part of that process. List of Vulnerable Plugins During This Month Plugins Removed From the Repository WordPress security team decides to close a plugin when a security issue is found and the developer doesn’t release a patch in a timely manner. You can read more about this here. If you are using one or more of the above plugins we recommend deactivating them until the developer releases a patch for the mentioned vulnerability or consider a more reliable alternative. Relevant Vulnerabilities Ti-woocommerce-wishlist : Authenticated WP Options Change A critical vulnerability was found in this plugin that when exploited allows an attacker to: Change the site options Create malicious redirects Escalate privileges (login as an administrator) This issue was resolved in the free version 1.21.12 on October 16, however when checking the premium version we noticed it was still vulnerable and was finally resolved on October 28 after we reported it. More details here. WPBakery Page Builder : Authenticated Stored XSS WPbakery Page Builder former Visual Composer had a medium vulnerability in versions before 6.4.1 that was only exploitable by high privilege users. Nevertheless we recommend all its users to update to the latest version. Loginizer : Unauthenticated SQL Injection Loginizer had an unauthenticated SQL Injection in versions before 1.6.4 caused by a lack of filtering before executing a database query. An attacker just had to craft a request with a malicious username. More information here.
