Mass attack on WordPress sites targets bug in WooCommerce plugin
The ongoing campaign is exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in the popular ecommerce plugin that can give hackers admin access to websites.
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The ongoing campaign is exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in the popular ecommerce plugin that can give hackers admin access to websites.
A barrage of targeted attacks against vulnerable installations peaked at 1.3 million against 157,000 sites over the weekend, aimed at unauthenticated code execution.
A popular WordPress plugin could have been exposing thousands of websites to potential takeover attacks.
Over 280,000 WordPress sites may have been taken over thanks to zero-day in popular plugin.
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team warned today that WordPress sites are actively targeted with exploits targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the WPGateway premium plugin.