WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Millions of Sites to Cyberattacks
The WordPress plugin for WordPress has a security flaw. Imperva warns that it may be time to update the plugin. This vulnerability allows attackers to to manipulation of a web application's functions and the activation of malicious scripts. It also enables them to gain remote control over the application. In contrast, traditional XSS attacks have the same reach and scale as stored XSS . . . . According to Imperva, a reflected XSS attack is typically a result of incoming requests not being sufficiently sanitized. It can be very easy to upload a web shell and gain command execution through this hole in the code.Users should update their WordPress settings to remove the deprecated Advanced Custom Fields plugin from version 6.1.6.
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