If you currently manage any Magento sites, the past day or two might of been a bit hectic. On 10/27, Magento released SUPEE-6788, which was a very significant security patch that fixed several interesting vulnerabilities. Among these were XSS vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, and object insertion via PHP’s unserialize function. For developers and server admins, this […]
Recently, a customer brought me two laptops that were ate up with Malware and viruses like PC Optimizer Pro. The kind that make your computer unusable and lock the computer down with scary warnings about viruses in the hope that people will pay them. These types of viruses are essentially a mild type of Ransomeware, […]
Alternate Title: How to 404 Any Page on Your WordPress Site. I came across an interesting bug(feature) while working on a wordpress site that allows you to make any page on your site show a 404, even though the page exists. While creating a form, it was necessary to pass some hidden values for the […]
Recently, a client asked me to launch their new site, which was built using a premium WordPress template. If you haven’t ever used one of these templates, they typically replace WordPress’s default editor with an often buggy editor that lets you add their custom shortcodes. In most cases, the steps in my post on useful […]
One of my clients using Woocommerce, along with the Woocommerce Color or Image Variation Select plugin, was running into an issue where with some products, the variation images would not save. Instead, they would just show the default color or in some cases, it was not even possible to change any of the settings in […]