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Home > Cybersecurity > 7 WordPress plugins being exploited by hackers

7 WordPress plugins being exploited by hackers

WordPress plugins with patched bugs or undefined bugs yet are the most attacked by hackers. Here are the 7 popular WordPress plugins being exploited by hackers last month.

Seda Nur Cinar by Seda Nur Cinar
March 5, 2020
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A number of attacks against WordPress sites increase day by day. When we look at last month’s attacks on WordPress sites, most of them are targeting recently-patched plugin bugs. Also, vulnerabilities in different plugins were attacked by hackers. Here is the list of the plugins identified as being part of this recent string of attacks.

Duplicator

Duplicator which is one of the most popular plugins on the WordPress portal enables site owners to export the content of their sites. WordPress has released a patch for the version 1.3.28 after hackers have exploited a bug in Duplicator since around mid-February. More than one million that installed Duplicator was affected at the time the attacks began.

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ThemeREX Addons

A zero-day exploit that began on February 18 in ThemeREX Addons allowed attackers to create rogue admin accounts. Update the plugin was not possible because there was not a security patch for this vulnerability. Therefore, removing the plugin from their sites is the only way to protect the site from these ongoing attacks.

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Profile Builder Plugin

A major bug has been discovered in the free and pro versions of the Profile Builder plugin which allows attackers to register unauthorized admin accounts on WordPress sites. The bug has been fixed on February 10. More than 50,000 users of the free version and 15,000 users of the commercial version were affected by the vulnerability.

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Flexible Checkout Fields

The Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin were targeted by attackers. More than 20,000 WordPress-based e-commerce sites installed this plugin. Attackers injected XSS payloads to create rogue admin accounts by using a zero-day exploit in this plugin since 26 February. A security patch has been issued to fix the bug.

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Async Javascript, 10web Map Builder, Modern Events Calendar Lite

Async JavaScript, 10Web Map Builder for Google Maps, Modern Events Calendar Lite plugins have been affected by three similar zero-days exploits. Patch for these three vulnerabilities has been released after attacks began.

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Seda Nur Cinar is the news editor of the Cloud7 News. With more than 8 years of Linux and cloud experience, Seda is a Linux and opensource enthusiast, security researcher and a web application developer.

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