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Think Like a Hacker with WordfenceAuthor: Wordfence
Mark Maunder co-founded Wordfence in 2011 after his WordPress site was hacked and he learned how hard it was to clean and secure. Today the team has grown to over 35 members world-wide and Wordfence protects over 4 million WordPress sites. On the Think Like a Hacker podcast, we cover interesting topics related to WordPress, security and innovation. Episodes alternate between security news and interviews with innovators from WordPress and information security communities. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 125: Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce
Friday, 16 July, 2021
A critical SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in WooCommerce, the most popular e-Commerce plugin used by over 5 million WordPress sites. The WordPress.org team pushed a forced security update ensuring that over 90 versions of WooCommerce were patched. REvil ransomware gang targeted a zero-day vulnerability in Kaseya, used by many in the banking industry, before going dark. A new SolarWinds zero-day was found in their Serv-U FTP platform. WordPress 5.8 will be released next week with many new features, as well as removing support for Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft released a number of patches, including those patching 3 zero-day vulnerabilities.
