Two popular WordPress plugins contain major security flaws that left about 320,000 websites open to exploit.<\/p>\n
Security firm WebARX discovered<\/strong><\/a> that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins contain issues that allow malicious parties to log in to an administrator account without using a password.<\/p>\n “Because authentication bypass vulnerabilities are often logical mistakes in the code and don\u2019t actually involve a suspicious-looking payload, it can be hard to find and determine where these issues come from,” said WebARX.<\/p>\n “Cloud-based firewalls might not be able to make a difference between malicious or legitimate traffic and therefore may fail to provide effective protection against this vulnerability,” said WebARX.<\/p>\n WebARX said it manually added a new module to its firewall to block this vulnerability.<\/p>\n “We have seen other WordPress security companies follow the same method. In the future, we can expand upon this new feature to block similar issues,” said WebARX.<\/p>\n WebARX said the developer of these plugins was quick to respond and released patches the day after being informed of the security flaw.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s always great to see developers who are taking action quickly and letting their customers know about the issues to help people update to a more secure version as soon as possible,” said WebARX.<\/p>\n Two popular WordPress plugins contain major security flaws that left about 320,000 websites open to exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":141744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15511,62680,9647],"class_list":["post-335488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-security-flaw","tag-webarx","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335500,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335488\/revisions\/335500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Android app billing scam \u2013 Check your account<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"