Hackers try to exploit them vulnerabilities SQL injection, καθώς και τρωτά σημεία ασφάλειας scripting (XSS) στο woocommerce ένα WordPress plugin με περισσότερες από 30.000 εγκαταστάσεις.
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 unchecked identity retrieve a list of all users and coupon codes, XSS into σελίδα management since they can run code remotely.
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.
