Hacked WordPress sites use visitors' browsers to hack other sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to inject malicious scripts. These scripts can either steal cryptocurrency from visitors' wallets or hijack their browsers to launch brute-force attacks against other websites. The hackers are likely building a larger pool of compromised sites to launch more extensive attacks in the future.

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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

will cause the visitor's browser to quietly upload a file using the WordPress site's XMLRPC interface

It's absurd that XMLRPC is still not disabled by default.

It's been an unnecessary weak point in the attack surface for many years.

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