Category: Security Advisories

Critical Vulnerability in Elementor Affecting 5+ Million Websites

Published on December 8, 2023

The vulnerability in Elementor was originally reported by Hồng Quân (luk6785 at VNPT-VCI) to our alliance program. We are collaborating with the researcher to release the content of this security advisory article. This blog post is about an Elementor plugin vulnerability. If you’re an Elementor user, please update the plugin to at least version 3.18.2. […]

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WordPress 6.4.2 Security Release

Published on December 6, 2023

WordPress 6.4.2 has been released on December 6th, 2023, which includes an important security fix. This security fix addresses a potential security issue that can only be exploited if another vulnerability (PHP object injection) is already present on your WordPress site. This was originally introduced in version 6.4.0 of WordPress and was also available in […]

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Fake CVE Phishing Campaign Tricks WordPress Users Into Installing Malware

Published on December 3, 2023

For the past couple of days, the Patchstack team has been monitoring a mass-scale phishing campaign with multiple variants of phishing emails going around that are notifying users about a supposed security vulnerability in their WordPress website. They claim it’s a “Remote Code Execution (RCE)” vulnerability and you are asked to immediately use a “Patch […]

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Thrive Theme Vulnerability: Dismiss Tooltip to Privilege Escalation

Published on November 29, 2023

This blog post is about a premium Thrive Theme vulnerability. If you’re a premium Thrive Theme user, please update the plugin to at least version 3.24.0. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the Thrive Theme The theme Thrive (premium version), which is estimated to have over 110,000 active […]

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Authenticated Stored XSS in WooCommerce and Jetpack Plugin

Published on November 15, 2023

This blog post is about the WooCommerce and Jetpack plugin vulnerability. If you’re a WooCommerce and Jetpack user, please update the plugin to at least version 8.2.0 and 12.8-a.3 respectively. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the WooCommerce and Jetpack plugin The plugin WooCommerce (versions <= 8.1.1, free […]

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Arbitrary Attachment Render to XSS in Elementor Plugin

Published on November 8, 2023

This blog post is about an Elementor plugin vulnerability. If you’re an Elementor user, please update the plugin to at least version 3.16.5. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the Elementor Plugin The plugin Elementor (versions <= 3.16.4, free version), which has over 5 million active installations, is […]

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WordPress Core 6.3.2 Security Update – Technical Advisory

Published on October 13, 2023

On the 12th of October 2023, WordPress.org released a security update and recommended users update their sites as soon as possible. This WordPress core 6.3.2 security release addresses 7 different security vulnerabilities and 1 potential security issue that affects multiple WordPress core versions. For many, WordPress automatically updates the core to the latest version. Check […]

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Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Upload in User Submitted Posts Plugin

Published on October 12, 2023

This blog post is about the User Submitted Posts plugin vulnerability. If you’re a User Submitted Posts user, please update the plugin to at least version 20230914. Patchstack users are protected from the vulnerability. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the User Submitted Posts Plugin The plugin User […]

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Two Paths to Privilege Escalation Vulnerability In The Simple Membership Plugin

Published on September 27, 2023

This blog post is about the vulnerability in the Simple Membership plugin. If you’re a Simple Membership user, please update the plugin to at least version 4.3.5. Patchstack users are protected from the vulnerability. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the Simple Membership Plugin The plugin Simple Membership […]

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Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor

Published on September 15, 2023

This blog post is about the vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor. If you’re an Essential Addons for Elementor user, please update the plugin to at least version 5.8.9. Patchstack users are protected from the vulnerability. For plugin developers, we have security audit services and Threat Intelligence Feed API for hosting companies. About the Essential Addons for the Elementor […]

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