WordPress Elementor Vulnerability Affects +7 Million

Stored XSS Elementor Exploit
The stored XSS vulnerability affecting Elementor can be used to steal administrator credentials. The attacker must however first obtain a publishing level WordPress user role, even the lowest Contributor level can initiate the attack. Contributor level [WordPress role] is a low level of registered user that can read, publish, edit and delete their own articles on a website. They cannot however upload media files like images.

Update Elementor Now
It is recommended by Wordfence that all users of Elementor update their version to at least 3.1.4 although the official Elementor Pro changeglog states that there’s a security fix. A changelog is a software developer’s official record of changes to every version of the software.

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WordPress Elementor Vulnerability Affects +7 Million

Stored XSS Elementor Exploit
The stored XSS vulnerability affecting Elementor can be used to steal administrator credentials. The attacker must however first obtain a publishing level WordPress user role, even the lowest Contributor level can initiate the attack. Contributor level [WordPress role] is a low level of registered user that can read, publish, edit and delete their own articles on a website. They cannot however upload media files like images.

Update Elementor Now
It is recommended by Wordfence that all users of Elementor update their version to at least 3.1.4 although the official Elementor Pro changeglog states that there’s a security fix. A changelog is a software developer’s official record of changes to every version of the software.

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Loginizer WordPress Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites

Stored XSS Vulnerability

The problem with Loginizer isn’t limited to the SQL injection vulnerability. This isn’t just one issue, it’s two issues.

The second exploit is called a Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) vulnerability. This is a particularly bad version of an XSS vulnerability.

With this kind of exploit a hacker can typically directly inject malicious files and then exploit the WordPress site and/or users. In general, a malicious file can be served to site visitors browser.

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WP Bakery WordPress Vulnerability Affects Millions of Sites

Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are characterized by an attacker gaining the ability to target the browsers of visitors through the use of malicious scripts that were surreptitiously placed on a website.

XSS attacks are among the most prevalent type of vulnerabilities.This specific attack is called an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. A Stored XSS vulnerability is one in which a script is placed in the website itself by an attacker.

But this is an Authenticated Stored XSS vulnerability, meaning that the attacker must have website credentials in order to execute the attack.This makes it less of a critical risk because it requires an attacker to take the extra step of acquiring credentials.

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WordPress Ultimate Addons for Elementor Vulnerability Affects +1 Million

The publishers of the Ultimate Addons for Elementor plugin notified customers of a vulnerability affecting two of their plugins. The two affected plugins are addons for the popular Elementor page builder plugin. Addons are third party plugins that extend the functionality and features of the Elementor Page Builder plugin.

The addon plugins with vulnerabilities are published by a third party, Brainstorm Force.

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Deep Dive Into WordPress Toolkit 4.7 Release

WordPress Tookit 4.7 is the third major WordPress Toolkit update in 2020. It’s also the first update developed and released by a team working completely remotely due to the current lock down. We’re happy to announce that we were still able to deliver as planned. Read on to learn what was added in this release.

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Update of Paid Plugins & Themes

Most WordPress agencies and web developers are using paid plugins and themes in their projects. Same goes for WordPress admins who’re at least semi-serious about their site. The main problem with such plugins and themes was that they’re not hosted on wordpress.org. Thus, WordPress Toolkit couldn’t detect their updates and install them. This deficiency led to a miserable user experience where you could update a bunch of plugins and themes via WordPress Toolkit. But for the rest, you had to go through WordPress itself. The Smart Updates feature also couldn’t update such plugins and themes, hence limiting its usefulness.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that this was the main known showstopper on the critical user path in WordPress Toolkit. This is why I’m very happy to announce that we have removed this showstopper in WordPress Toolkit 4.7. If you can see and install the plugin or theme update in WordPress itself, you can do the same in WordPress Toolkit now. Let’s take a closer look.

Here’s how these updates are displayed in WordPress itself:

WordPress Toolkit displays these updates in the same way it displays updates for plugins and themes from wordpress.org:

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