Hackers try to exploit SQL vulnerabilities injection, as well as security scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in woocommerce one WordPress plugin with more than 30.000 installations.
Discount Rules for WooCommerce is a plugin that makes it simple to manage product prices in electronics stores WooCommerce.
The security flaws identified and reported by WebARX could allow attackers to potentially execute code remotely to the vulnerable addresses and actions with administrator rights.
WebARX reported the vulnerabilities to the plugin's development team on August 7th, and less than a week later, on August 13th, the version 2.1.0 had updated the code, for these security holes.
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.
