WordPress Username Enumeration using HTTP Fuzzer

In many WordPress blogs, it’s possible to enumerate WordPress users using a well-known feature/bug related to author archives. This works if the following conditions are met: WordPress permalinks are enabled. By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them; however, WordPress offers…

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Cookie Overdose

One of our customers recently reported that some parts of his site were not properly crawled by our scanner (Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner). Upon investigation, I found the cause of the problem. When a specific page was visited, a cookie with a random name and a large value…

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The TweetDeck Worm: How it Worked

TweetDeck is a very popular Twitter application (with 23% market share as of June 2009). The application was acquired by Twitter on May 25, 2011. On Wednesday, the user @derGeruhn, exploited a stored XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability in the TweetDeck application and created a worm…

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Latest Acunetix release scans for Heartbleed Bug

Yesterday, an update was released for Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner which includes a test for a critical OpenSSL vulnerability named The Heartbleed Bug (CVE-2014-0160). Quote from the report: The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the…

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