Researchers Uncover 89 Zero-Days in CMS Platforms

guest · Sep 9, 2020

Researchers Uncover 89 Zero-Days in CMS Platforms
September 9, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researchers-uncover-89-zerodays-in/

Security researchers are warning users of popular content management system (CMS) platforms that they could be exposed to a range of cyber-threats, after uncovering 89 zero-day vulnerabilities.

A team at Comparitech decided to investigate a recent surge in web defacement attacks which appears to have bucked the long-term trend of a decline in such activity.
Monthly attacks soared from around 300,000 in July 2019 to nearly 700,000 in May 2020. Comparitech privacy advocate Paul Bischoff claimed the rise may be due to hackers staving off boredom while in lockdown.

As part of its investigation, the team uncovered 89 zero-day vulnerabilities in platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Opencart — and their plugins.
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Comparitech also found that a relatively small number of the exploits it analyzed appear in vulnerability databases: just 124 out of a total of 280. This makes it less likely that security teams and vendors will have documented and built-in protections against them.
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Comparitech: A look inside the hacker community that’s vandalizing the web

Comparitech researchers analyzed the underground mass hacking and website defacement market and uncovered 89 zero-day vulnerabilities affecting more than 100,000 sites
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