Tag Archives: SQL injection

Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that’s as severe as it gets

Getty Images reader comments 10 Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said. The vulnerability resides in WordPress Automatic, a plugin with more than 38,000 paying customers. Websites running the WordPress content management system use it to incorporate content… Read More »

MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability

reader comments 21 with MOVEit, the file-transfer software exploited in recent weeks in one of the biggest cyberattacks ever, has received yet another security update that fixes a critical vulnerability that could be exploited to give hackers access to vast amounts of sensitive data. On Thursday, MOVEit maker Progress Software published a security bulletin that… Read More »

Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

reader comments 146 with 85 posters participating, including story author Share this story Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the… Read More »