#wordpress

The Popup Manager WordPress plugin through 1.6.6 does not have authorisation and CSRF check when creating/updating popups, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary popups and add Stored XSS payloads as well

The Popup Manager WordPress plugin through 1.6.6 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when deleting popups, which could allow unauthenticated users to delete them

The Directorist WordPress plugin before 7.4.4 does not prevent users with low privileges (like subscribers) from accessing sensitive system information.

The Checkout for PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.0.14 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin before 1.0.5 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The Videojs HTML5 Player WordPress plugin before 1.1.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The WP Stripe Checkout WordPress plugin before 1.2.2.21 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The WP Shamsi plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the deactivate() function hooked via init() in versions up to, and including, 4.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to deactivate arbitrary plugins on the site. This can be used to deactivate security plugins that aids in exploiting other vulnerabilities.

Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that's primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Called MCCrash, the botnet is characterized by a unique spreading mechanism that allows it to propagate to Linux-based devices despite originating from malicious software downloads on Windows hosts. "The botnet spreads by

The WP User plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its settings parameters in versions up to, and including, 7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.