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Pi-Hole Discloses Data Breach via GiveWp WordPress Plugin Flaw
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Pi-hole Discloses Data Breach Triggered By WordPress Plugin Flaw - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin. Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole, filtering out unwanted content before it reaches the users’ devices. While initially designed to run on Raspberry Pi single-board computers, it now supports various Linux systems on dedicated hardware or virtual machines. The organiza…
Data loss in the Pi-Hole community. The developers of the well-known ad-blocking and more software had to admit that the names and email addresses of at least 30,000 supporters were compromised through a security vulnerability in the WordPress plugin GiveWP. The vulnerability allowed attackers to extract donor information via a simple code snippet. Read the article: Pi-Hole: 30,000 Donor Data Compromised by WordPress Plugin You can support us wi…
Due to an error in the Wordpress plugin GiveWP, names and e-mail addresses of all subjects of the Pi-hole project could be read out easily. (Data leak, spam)
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