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WordPress Hosting By KnownHost LLC With Entry Level And Business Level Managed Hosting Plans

[ad_1] WEST CHESTER, PA / ACCESSWIRE / September 14, 2020 / According to announcements released by KnownHost LLC, managed WordPress hosting provided by this established webhost is an excellent choice for both hobbyist bloggers and businesses that seek dependable and affordable WordPress hosting. All accounts include WP-CLI and SSH/SFTP logins for easy management… [ad_2] More Info

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WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Attackers to Send Forged Emails – Threatpost

[ad_1] The high-severity flaw in the Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin by Icegram affects more than 100,000 WordPress websites. More than 100,000 WordPress websites are affected by a high-severity flaw in a plugin that assists websites in sending out emails and newsletters to subscribers. The vulnerability exists in the Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin by Icegram, which enables users to collect leads, send automated new blog post notification emails. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to send forged emails to… [ad_2] More Info

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WordPress Malware Disables Security Plugins to Avoid Detection

[ad_1] An alarm or monitoring system is a great tool that can be used to improve the security of a home or website, but what if an attacker can easily disable it? I’ve previously written about malware that reverses security hardening measures enacted either manually by the owner, or through the use of a security plugin installed in WordPress. What attackers may find problematic with reverse security hardening is that a security plugin that monitors files can detect any changes and alert the owner via email notification or within the WordPress dashboard. Unfortunately, PHP malware exists which… [ad_2] More Info

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Hackers are fighting a war over 300K vulnerable WordPress sites

[ad_1] Attackers who are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution flaw affecting over 600,000 of WordPress sites running vulnerable File Manager plugin versions have also been seen protecting the sites they compromise from other threat actors’ attacks. The critical vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to upload malicious PHP files and execute arbitrary code following successful exploitation [1, 2, 3]. File Manager’s dev team addressed the flaw with the release of File Manager 6.9. Even though the flaw was patched within hours after the devs were informed by Seravo’s… [ad_2] More Info

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Exploring Seedlet, Automattic’s Block-First WordPress Theme – WordPress Tavern

[ad_1] On August 26, Automattic launched a new theme titled Seedlet that focused on integrating with the WordPress block editor. A few days later, it was also live in the WordPress.org theme directory. The theme development team wanted to produce a theme that would be in a good position to transition to full-site editing later this year as WordPress 5.6 lands. Seedlet makes wide use of features that integrate with the block editor. It does so in what is the simplest of ways, which is a testament to how much easier theme development is becoming in the dawn of the block-based themes era…. [ad_2] More Info

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WordPress Plug-in Has Critical Zero-Day – Dark Reading

[ad_1] Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2020-1913 PUBLISHED: 2020-09-09 An Integer signedness error in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit 2c7af7ec481ceffd0d14ce2d7c045e475fd71dc6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or a potential RCE via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application using Hermes per… CVE-2020-24379 PUBLISHED: 2020-09-09 WebDAV implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to XXE injection. CVE-2020-24916 PUBLISHED: 2020-09-09 CGI… [ad_2] More Info

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Reflected XSS in WordPress Plugin Admin Pages

[ad_1] The administrative dashboard in WordPress is a pretty safe place: Only elevated users can access it. Exploiting a plugin’s admin panel would serve very little purpose here — an administrator already has the required permissions to do all of the actions a vulnerability could cause. While this is usually true, there are a number of techniques bad actors are using to trick an administrator into performing actions they would not expect, such as Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) or Clickjacking attacks. By using these techniques, an attacker can exploit a vulnerability on the behalf of an… [ad_2] More Info

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Brandezk Launches Ecommerce Development on Shopify, Magento, and WordPress

[ad_1] NEW YORK, Sept. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brandezk, a renowned web design agency, recently announced the introduction of E-commerce development services on its website. The company announced its development services for several platforms, including Shopify, Magento, WordPress, and also announced the development of 100% made-to-order E-commerce stores for clients having custom needs. The company has specialized in providing mobile app development services for years. The recent shift in the company’s modus operandi, as stated by the managing director of the company, was made ‘in… [ad_2] More Info

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