A bug was found in the WP Live Chat Support Plugin Vulnerability plugin that allows an unauthenticated user to edit a setting of the plugin. This setting allows the user to insert javascript code to the front-end of the website and was actively being exploited as of 05/17/2019 to add a redirect to a spam site.
If you are using this wordpress plugin, you need to update or disable it immediately.
**Disclaimer: This post probably has a very limited useful lifespan, so if you reach this after 05/14/2019 and are experiencing a similar issue, it may not be related!** Recently, a client contacted me because the backend of their wordpress website was inaccessible. They are using the Jupiter Theme by Artbee’s and the front end of […]
I ran into an interesting issue this week caused by someone using Magebay’s Menu Creator Pro plugin. The plugin was causing user sessions to be extremely large and included HTML content. The result was user sessions that were 1.5MB in size and because this site was using memcache and gets a fair number of unique visitors to their website each day, was causing hosting problems.
While developing a custom email template for a client running the Woocommerce E-Commerce shopping cart system on their website, I ran into some issues with styles being automatically inlined and added to the email before it was sent.
After some debugging, I discovered that Woocommerce uses the Emogrifier to inline styles in the email, which was causing some issues.
This post discusses how you can use your own copy of the emogrifer library, in order to change settings or upgrade it to a newer version, without modifying woocommerce code.
I would add the disclaimer that there are some potential problems with this, so whenever possible fixing your template so emogrifier doesn’t break it is probably better.
A few weeks ago, we attended the Christmas tree lighting at Knightdale Station Park. It was a fun event and made all the better by the support of the town of Knightdale and a number of local businesses. I look forward to the coming New Year and wish everyone a Merry Christmas!