A critical vulnerability in a third-party plugin installed on over 70,000 websites running WordPress could allow hackers to execute malicious code remotely. The vulnerability, discovered by security researchers at Wordfence, hides in a vulnerable version of the wpDiscuz commenting plugin and enables hackers to upload arbitrary files to targeted websites, including executable PHP files. wpDiscuz […]
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There have been 10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed through June 30th, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Mid Year VulnDB QuickView report. This is the highest number of disclosed vulnerabilities at the mid-year point on record. The 10,644 vulnerabilities cataloged during the first half of 2018 by Risk Based Security’s research team eclipsed the total covered by […]
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Image-based social network Pinterest has launched a bug bounty program powered by the crowdsourced-driven vulnerability disclosure platform Bugcrowd. Pinterest has a team of people dedicated to finding and fixing bugs, and it has also collaborated with external security experts to ensure that the platform is secure, the company said. In an effort to make the […]
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