Episode 83: 100,000 Sites Impacted by Vulnerabilities in Advanced Access Manager

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered vulnerabilities in the Advanced Access Manager plugin installed on over 100,000 WordPress sites. A high severity authorization bypass could lead to privilege escalation and site takeover. Critical vulnerabilities found in the Quiz and Survey Master plugin could also lead to site takeover on the 30,000 WP sites using the vulnerable version of this plugin.

Thousands of sites broke after updating to WordPress 5.5 due to deprecated support for jQuery Migrate, and the release of the Enable jQuery Migrate Helper plugin reached 10,000 active installations to help fix these sites using older themes or plugins.

As cryptocurrency values rise, we’re seeing a wave of new scams and hacking campaigns with cryptocurrency as a driving force, such as the recent Twitter hack and a botnet campaign breaching SSH servers.