Archive for December 2, 2014

Keeping Your Website Safe From WordPress’s XSS Vulnerability

XSS Vulnerability

Last month, a Finnish IT company by the name of Klikki Oy identified a critical vulnerability in WordPress – one which has been present in the platform for approximately four years. It allows attackers to enter comments which include malicious JavaScript. Once the script in these comments is executed, the attacker could then do anything from infecting the PCs of visitors to completely hijacking the website; locking the original administrator out of their account. Read more