Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw implementationof remote code affecting over 600.000 WordPress sites. Her vulnerability we mentioned in a previous publication and concerns websites running vulnerable versions of the File Manager plugin.
Critical vulnerability allows unauthorized users to upload malicious PHP files and run malicious code. THE team File Manager developers have addressed the issue with the release of File Manager 6.9.
Although the flaw was fixed immediately when developers were notified by Seravo security chief Ville Korhonen, who discovered the 0day and the ongoing attacks that were trying to exploit it, researchers from the security company Defiant identified more than 1,7 million vulnerable 1st to 3rd of September.
In an updated report released today, Defiant threat analyst Ram Gall states that hackers they have not stopped their "siege", and the total number of WordPress sites they are targeting has reached 2,6 million.
