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Hackers Attack WordPress' Yoast SEO Plugin
You probably never would have thought that hackers would do a blind SQL injection on the ever-popular Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. And yet, just recently hackers have successfully penetrated the security system of the top-rated Yoast SEO plugin, which is used by over 14 million WordPress sites on the internet.
If you are a Yoast SEO plugin users, you are urged to update your plugin as soon as possible for them not to expose and make you lose important data on your web pages. Hackers can do a blind SQL injection on popular WordPress SEO plugins that are not updated. A blind SQL injection is a kind of SQL injection attack that asks the database true or false questions and usually determines the answers based on the applications feedback.
In most cases this attack is used in configured web applications to show generic error messages, but has not mitigated the code that is vulnerable to SQL injection. The attack can also be used to insert an SQL query into the site’s database to extract, modify or delete data. This makes it a very important tool that should not land on the hands of your business enemies through hacking. Blind SQL injections are habitually used to insert unauthorized spam links on websites or more practically the attack can be used in installing malware/adware on your web pages.
Protecting Your WordPress Site
WordPress users can fix the problem by upgrading to Yoast SEO plugin version 1.7.4 with immediate effect. This new version is documented to be a security fix that will protect hackers from interfering with any of your WordPress data. Here some top features of the 1.7.4 version security fix.
- Fixed possible CSRF and blind SQL injection vulnerabilities in bulk editor
- Added strict sanitation to order by and order parameters
- Added extra nonce checks on requests sending additional parameters
- Minimal capability needed to access the bulk editor
Your WordPress sites are highly vulnerable to hackers if you have not installed the new version. Update your Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin today to avoid hackers from infiltrating your web content and important site data on the WordPress blogs.
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