Critical Magento SQL Injection Vulnerability Discovered – Patch Your Sites

From thehackernews.com

Magento website security vulnerability

If your online e-commerce business is running over the Magento platform, you must pay attention to this information.

Magento yesterday released new versions of its content management software to address a total of 37 newly-discovered security vulnerabilities.

Owned by Adobe since mid-2018, Magento is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) platform that powers 28% of websites across the Internet with more than 250,000 merchants using the open source e-commerce platform.

Though most of the reported issues could only be exploited by authenticated users, one of the most severe flaws in Magento is an SQL Injection vulnerability which can be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers.

The flaw, which does not have a CVE ID but internally labeled “PRODSECBUG-2198,” could allow remote hackers to steal sensitive information from the databases of vulnerable e-commerce websites, including admin sessions or password hashes that could grant hackers access to the admin’s dashboard.

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