Posts Categorized: Security

You Could Have A Serious Security Flaw in Your WordPress Deployments if you use the PageLine or Platform Themes

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  Security researchers have discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the PageLines and Platform themes in WordPress. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain admin privileges to your websites. The researchers also discovered that there is another security bug in Platform. This bug allows an attacker to remotely execute code. This could lead to attackers… Read more »

Cyber Crime: Are You Protected?

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  There doesn’t seem to be a week go by without there being a news story involving a breach of modern IT systems. However. it doesn’t need to be like this. There are many ways to protect both your business and your users from cyber crime, and the good news is they’re typically free, they… Read more »

Have we found a bug in Mailchimp?

Late yesterday afternoon (24/11/14), Reconnix became aware of a vulnerability within WordPress. The problem is with a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affects versions 3.9.2 and earlier. This particular vulnerability could allow an attacker to enter code on to the comments section of a blog post, enabling them to take control of the administrator’s account. So, as with… Read more »