Hackers attacked the WordPress WooCommerce Store

Hackers try to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities as well as vulnerabilities in scripting security (XSS) in woocommerce a WordPress plugin with more than 30.000 installations.

Discount Rules for WooCommerce is a plugin that makes it easy to manage product prices in WooCommerce online stores.

The security vulnerabilities identified and reported by WebARX could allow intruders to possibly execute remote code in vulnerable addresses and with administrator privileges.

WebARX reported vulnerabilities to the plugin development team on August 7th, and in less than a week, on August 13th, version 2.1.0 updated the code for these vulnerabilities.

Based on Jong's analysis of these vulnerabilities, they could allow attackers without authentication to retrieve a list of all users and coupon codes, enter the admin page with XSS, and run remote code.

At least 17.000 online stores are exposed to attacks

The developer of the plugin repaired the vulnerabilities on August 13th.

Despite this, the plugin has been downloaded over 12.000 times in the last 7 days based on the download history provided by the WordPress page. With these numbers representing the total number of updates and new installations.

This means that at least 17.000 WordPress pages that use WooCommerce, and have the plugin enabled, are still exposed to constant attacks.