Web Security

Have you ever been hacked? Your password compromised? Regardless of the answer, let us at HowToHosting.guide tell you why you need good password management and why it is of utmost importance. Password Management does not necessarily mean you need to…

Even in 2021, Shared Hosting is a hot topic. Being cheap and accessible are some of the reasons why it remains popular and is a preferred choice among individuals and businesses that want a good hosting solution. What about Security?…

Ever doubted what exactly Web Security is? You will wonder no more after we at HowToHosting.guide provide you with a straightforward explanation and provide you with the main focus points of this IT sphere. Web Security is also known as…

Cybersecurity is ever evolving in response to online threats, hacker attacks, viruses and many more vulnerabilities online. We at HowToHosting.guide consider it important to give you a quick lesson in Cybersecurity basics and how that can affect all of us…

Four new security vulnerabilities in the Ninja Forms WordPress plugins were just reported. The Ninja Forms plugin enables users to create forms using drag and drop capabilities with ease, and it’s quite popular in the WordPress repository, as it is…

Apparently, a cyberattack can cause the “death” of an entire company. No Support Linux Hosting, a web hosting provider, just announced it is shutting down following a breach of its internal systems. According to a message visible only as an…

NextGen Gallery is a popular WordPress plugin with more than 800,000 installations. The plugin enables the creation of highly responsive image galleries. Unfortunately, Wordfence security researchers discovered that the plugin contained vulnerabilities, one of which (CVE-2020-35942) a critical remote code…

Security researchers from Wordfence discovered that the Orbit Fox WordPress plugin contained two vulnerabilities. One of them could lead to privilege escalation (rated critical), and the other one is a stored XSS flaw (rated medium). The Orbit Fox plugin has…

The use of the HTTP protocol as opposed to its secure version (HTTPS) is becoming a major issue in most contemporary sites. More and more applications and content management systems enforce the use of HTTPS, and the former “unsafe” HTTP…

If you are using the popular Easy WP SMTP WordPress plugin, you should know that researchers discovered a zero-day vulnerability in it. The plugin’s installations are more than 500,000, meaning that half a million websites are at risk. Furthermore, threat…

Security researchers uncovered two vulnerabilities in a WordPress plugin, this time affecting more than 200,000 websites. The PageLayer plugin contains two reflected XSS (cross-site scripting) flaws that could enable threat actors to execute malicious JavaScript code in an administrator’s browser.…

Is your website already running the latest version of WordPress? We are talking about WordPress 5.6, also known as the Nina Simone update. This is the final major release of the content management system planned for 2020, and it was…

Security researchers just reported that cPanel, perhaps the most common provider of admin tools for web hosting, is vulnerable. Security flaws resided in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) web hosting platform, enabling remote hackers with valid credentials to bypass two-factor…

Security researchers recently detected a large-scale malicious campaign targeting themes that utilize the Epsilon Framework. Threat actors took advantage of Function Injection vulnerabilities in a number of WordPress themes. Epsilon Framework vulnerabilities in WordPress themes put millions of sites at…