• higgsboson@dubvee.org
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    7 months ago

    The vulnerability is due to “insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query,” according to Wordfence.

    “This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database,” the company said.

    Ohh yes, little Bobby Tables.

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      7 months ago

      What a convoluted way they chose to say “we didn’t use a prepared statement” lol

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        7 months ago

        Wordfence is a security and vulnerability monitor for Wordpress. The flaw is in the plugin “layerslider”