WordPress Plugins and Themes

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in InfiniteWP Client

An authentication bypass vulnerability affecting more than 300,000 InfiniteWP Client plugin users has recently been disclosed to the public. This…

11 months ago

5 Year Anniversary of the SoakSoak Malware Tsunami

This is a story about the SoakSoak malware campaign that proved that you can’t underestimate impact of security issues in…

1 year ago

Unmasking Black Hat SEO for Dating Scams

Malware obfuscation comes in all shapes and sizes — and it’s sometimes hard to recognize the difference between malicious and…

1 year ago

Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector

This past week, we’ve been monitoring a new wave of website infections mostly impacting WordPress and Magento websites. We found…

1 year ago

Data URLs and HTML Entities in New WordPress Malware

Last week, an ongoing WordPress malware campaign started a new wave which included a variety of experimental injection types. Scripts…

1 year ago

Fake UpdraftPlus Plugins

We often find various fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers during website cleanups. Recently, we’ve noticed a new wave of…

1 year ago

Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins

When cleaning websites, we regularly find phishing pages, malicious code injected into files, and SEO spam. However, over the past…

1 year ago

A New Wave of Buggy WordPress Infections

We’ve been following an ongoing malware campaign for the past couple of years now. This campaign is renowned for its…

1 year ago

Fake Human Verification Spam

We recently released an update to our Labs Knowledgebase for new plugins that had been targeted during the month of…

1 year ago

Misuse of WordPress update_option() function Leads to Website Infections

In the past four months, Sucuri has seen an increase in the number of plugins affected by the misuse of …

1 year ago