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Episode 95: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Affect Over 100K WordPress Sites Nov 13, 2020

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Three critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Ultimate Member plugin put over 100,000 sites at risk. We also talk about the Page Experience metric to be added as a ranking signal for Google search and what this means for WordPress sites using page builders or Gutenberg. Microsoft warns against using telephone/SMS-based multi-factor authentication, and two zero-day vulnerabilities were patched in Google Chrome. Windows patches over 111 vulnerabilities as a part of November's Patch Tuesday.

Episode 94: Hosting Provider Exposed 63 Million Customer Records Nov 06, 2020

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A hosting provider exposed over 63 million customer records via an open elastic search database containing verbose logs with plain-text username/password credentials for numerous WordPress, Magento and other sites. We also talk about the security updates in WordPress 5.5.2/5.5.3 and the accidental 5.5.3-alpha autoupdate. We talk about object injection vulnerabilities like the one discovered in the Welcart e-Commerce plugin and how POP chain attacks work. And Google's Project Zero finds a high-severity vulnerability in GitHub Actions not fixed within the 90-day disclosure grace period.

Episode 93: Nitro Documents on the Dark Web and Botnets Targeting Older Vulnerabilities Oct 31, 2020

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We cover a couple of breaking stories this week, including the emergency release of WordPress 5.5.3 on Friday, October 30. In preparation for this, a number of sites autoupdated to version 5.5.3-alpha. We also look at the the defacement of the Trump Campaign website, and how 2-Factor Authentication could have prevented this. We also look at the implications of a massive Nitro database impacting numerous large organizations. A botnet is targeting a number of content management systems, including WordPress sites. And AdWare found on the Google Play Store is targeting kids.

Episode 92: WordPress Forced Security Autoupdate Protects Sites from Loginizer Vulnerability Oct 23, 2020

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An easily exploitable SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in the Loginizer plugin installed on over one million WordPress sites, causing the WordPress team to force an update to sites using the vulnerable version.

The Justice department is filing antitrust suit against Google for allegedly monopolizing search and search advertising markets. Google Chrome gets an update to fix an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. And a new feature in Jetpack allows users to post Tweetstorms through WordPress.

Episode 91: How Hackers Can Use CSRF Vulnerabilities and Spearphishing to Wreak Havoc on WordPress Oct 17, 2020

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On this week's episode of Think Like a Hacker, we chat about the cross-site request forgery vulnerability found in the Child Theme Creator by Orbisius and how attackers could potentially use a vulnerability like this with spearphishing to wreak havoc, much like the phishing campaigns now being found on the Canva design platform. We also discuss the benefits of adding application passwords for REST API authentication planned for WordPress version 5.6.

We also consider the ramifications of the critical, wormable RCE bug patched by Microsoft, and how attackers are actively attacking the recent zerologon vulnerability that was patched in August.

Episode 90: WPBakery Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites Oct 09, 2020

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A vulnerability discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team in the WPBakery plugin exposes over 4 million sites. High severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the Post Grid and Team Showcase plugins. The online avatar service Gravatar, has been exposed to a user enumeration technique, which could be abused to collect data on its users' profiles, and a card skimmer was found on Boom! Mobile's web site, putting customer card data at risk.

Episode 89: Shopify Rogue Employees, Medium and Twitter Vulnerabilities, and Hackers Hiding Out in Corporate Networks Oct 02, 2020

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Shopify reports that rogue employees stole data from 200 merchants on their platform. A security researcher found a vulnerability in the Medium Partner Program could have allowed an attacker to steal writers' earnings. Symantec reports that a state-sponsored hacking group has been hiding out in company networks as a part of an information-stealing campaign. And Twitter reports that an API bug exposed app keys and tokens via a caching issue.

Episode 88: XCloner Vulnerabilities, LokiBot Malware, & a 14 Year Old Nets a $25K Bug Bounty Sep 25, 2020

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Our Threat Intelligence team discovered several vulnerabilities present in XCloner Backup and Restore, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. These vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of detected persistent malicious activity traced back to LokiBot infections. An upcoming API change will break Facebook and Instagram oEmbed links across the web beginning October 24. Google has launched the Web Stories for WordPress plugin with a drag-and-drop, WYSIWYG interface for making full-screen, tappable content. Drupal patches a critical reflected XSS vulnerability. And a critical stored XSS vulnerability in Instagram's Spark AR Studio nets a 14-year-old researcher $25,000.

Episode 87: Vulnerabilities Affect Discount Rules for WooCommerce Plugin, ModSecurity & Windows Sep 18, 2020

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Vulnerabilities were recently patched in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce plugin installed on over 40,000 WordPress sites. Developers from OWASP Core Rule Set said ModSecurity v3 is exposed to denial of service exploits, though the maintainers of ModSecurity reject that claim. A severe vulnerability called Zerologon in Windows Netlogon was patched in August; this bug could be exploited to attack enterprise servers. And a security researcher also discovered that the Windows TCPIP Finger command can also function as a file downloader and a makeshift command and control server. Last weekend, nearly 2,000 Magento stores were compromised in the largest hacking campaign since 2015.

Episode 86: War of the Hackers Sep 11, 2020

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Millions of attacks have been targeting the recent File Manager plugin zero-day vulnerability discovered last week. Two attackers are vying for control over sites compromised through the vulnerability. A security researcher has revealed that specially crafted Windows 10 themes can be used to perform Pass-the-Hash attacks. A database belonging to the Digital Point webmaster forum leaked records of over 800,000 web professionals that are members of the forum. Visa is warning of a new Baka Javascript credit card skimmer that removes itself from memory after exfiltrating stolen data, making it difficult to detect.

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