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January 2015 WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Posted by Virtually Everything 
· January 16, 2015 

WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are being exploited and hackers are looking to take advantage of them. They did not take a break over the holiday season and so here is a quick roundup of the most important current vulnerabilities being tracked that you should be aware of:

  • The popular Pods content development framework for WordPress has a XSS and CSRF vulnerability which was fixed in version 2.5 was released December 30th. Please upgrade immediately if you have not already done so.
  • The cformsII plugin suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability via unauthorized file upload. Please upgrade immediately to version 14.8 which contains a fix if you’re using this plugin. (plugin has approximately 20,000 downloads)
  • The Banner Effect Header plugin has a XSS and CSRF vulnerability . This has been fixed in version 1.2.7 so upgrade if you’re using this plugin. (plugin has approximately 20,000 downloads)

Please upgrade immediately if you are using any of these plugins.

 

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