TYPO3 Warns Of Critical Vulnerability In CMS

The developers of the popular content management system (CMS) TYPO3 have warned of a critical flaw in the software that only can be logged in with a user name. To also carry out the attack, the CMS software must be set in a certain way.

The system extension must "rsaauth" are loaded and configured in a particular way for frontend use. Furthermore, there must be a vulnerable CMS version installed. The leak, which has not yet CVE number, is present in versions 4.3.0 t / m 4.3.14, 4.4.0 t / m 4.4.15, 4.5.0 t / m 5.4.39 and 4.6.0 t / m 04/06/18. Users have strongly advised to upgrade to 5.4.40 or use a specially crafted shell script that vulnerable TYPO3 versions patches.

'SoakSoak' Malware Infected 100,000+ Wordpress Websites

At over 100,000+ WordPress sites researchers have found malicious code that attempts to infect visitors with malware. The code is loaded from the Russian domain SoakSoak. Google would now more than 11,000 infected websites have put on a blacklist.

Visitors who use Firefox or Chrome receive when visiting these WordPress sites a warning that the site contains malware. According to security firm Sucuri is the number of affected sites much larger and would amount to more than 100,000 WordPress installations. Also on the forum WordPress complain many users SoakSoak on their website.

How the attackers managed to get the malicious code on the WordPress sites is still unknown, but it is suspected that the sites a vulnerable version of the WordPress Slider Revolution use premium plugin. By September WordPress sites with a vulnerable version of the plug-in even though the target of attacks.