A recent Capture-The-Flag tournament hosted by Insomni’hack challenged participants to craft an attack payload for Drupal 7. This blog post will demonstrate our solution for a PHP Object Injection with a complex POP gadget chain.

Last year in December we released once a day a vulnerability affecting WordPress core or one of the most popular WordPress plugins, next to a critical persistent XSS in wordpress.org. This blogpost will summarize common mistakes developers make and the overall impact our advent calendar had on the WordPress community and the current state of WordPress security.

The WordPress.org website holds the repositories for all plugins and themes that are used by all WordPress sites. Furthermore, it manages the accounts that developers use to edit the code of their themes and plugins. In this blog post, we investigate a critical stored XSS vulnerability on the WordPress.org website we have reported to the WordPress security team in May 2018.

A logic flaw in the way WordPress created blog posts allowed attackers to access features only administrators were supposed to have (CVE-2018-20152). This lead to a Stored XSS and Object Injection in the WordPress core and more severe vulnerabilities in WordPress’s most popular plugins Contact Form 7 and Jetpack.

The holiday season is coming up again and it’s time for some security fun. For the third time in a row, we are proud to announce our PHP security advent calendar. This year, we will analyze 24 exciting security bugs that we detected in the most widespread WordPress plugins.