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Thousands of WordPress websites were impacted by three remote code execution vulnerabilities that were identified in the PHP Everywhere plugin, the Wordfence team at WordPress security company Defiant warns.

With more than 30,000 downloads, the PHP Everywhere plugin is an open-source plugin designed to enable PHP code everywhere in the WordPress installation.

The latest PHP Everywhere iteration was released last month with patches for three critical vulnerabilities (CVSS score of 9.9) that could allow users with low privileges to execute code on the WordPress sites that use the plugin.

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Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in a WordPress plugin known as PHP Everywhere that’s used by more than 30,000 websites worldwide and could be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected systems.

PHP Everywhere is used to flip the switch on PHP code across WordPress installations, enabling users to insert and execute PHP-based code in the content management system’s Pages, Posts, and Sidebar.

The three issues, all rated 9.9 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS rating system, impact versions 2.0.3 and below, and are as follows –

• CVE-2022-24663 – Remote…

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Researchers found three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the ‘PHP Everywhere’ plugin for WordPress, used by over 30,000 websites worldwide.

PHP Everywhere is a plugin that allows WordPress admins to insert PHP code in pages, posts, the sidebar, or any Gutenberg block, and use it to display dynamic content based on evaluated PHP expressions.

Three RCE flaws

The three vulnerabilities were discovered by security analysts at Wordfence and can be exploited by contributors or subscribers, affecting all WordPress versions from 2.0.3 and below.

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