{"id":201364,"date":"2024-12-12T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins"},"modified":"2024-12-12T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:45:11","slug":"wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Hunk Companion Plugin Flaw Exploited to Silently Install Vulnerable Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chain of exploitation underscores the importance of securing every component of a WordPress site, especially third\u2011party themes and plugins, which can become critical points of entry for attackers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as Wordfence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/6000000-wordpress-sites-protected-against-payment-refund-and-subscription-cancellation-vulnerability-in-wpforms-wordpress-plugin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed<\/a> a high-severity flaw in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpforms-lite\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPForms<\/a> plugin (CVE-2024\u201311205, CVSS score: 8.5) that makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to refund Stripe payments and cancel subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, which affects versions 1.8.4 up to, and including, 1.9.2.1, has been resolved in versions 1.9.2.2 or later. The plugin is installed on over 6 million WordPress sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe chain of exploitation underscores the importance of securing every component of a WordPress site, especially third\u2011party themes and plugins, which can become critical points of entry for attackers.\u201d The development comes as Wordfence disclosed a high-severity flaw in the WPForms plugin (CVE-2024\u201311205, CVSS score: 8.5) that makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201364","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}