{"id":183123,"date":"2024-02-20T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/wordpress-bricks-theme-under-active-attack-critical-flaw-impacts-25000-sites"},"modified":"2024-02-20T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:24:06","slug":"wordpress-bricks-theme-under-active-attack-critical-flaw-impacts-25000-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/wordpress-bricks-theme-under-active-attack-critical-flaw-impacts-25000-sites","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Bricks Theme Under Active Attack: Critical Flaw Impacts 25,000+ Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wordpress-bricks-theme-under-active-attack-critical-flaw-impacts-25000-sites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024\u201325600 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. It impacts all versions of the Bricks up to and including 1.9.6.<\/p>\n<p>It has been addressed by the theme developers in <a href=\"https:\/\/bricksbuilder.io\/release\/bricks-1-9-6-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 1.9.6.1<\/a> released on February 13, 2024, merely days after WordPress security provider Snicco reported the flaw on February 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024\u201325600 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. It impacts all versions of the Bricks up to and including 1.9.6. It has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}