Author: Natalia Nowak
263 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Security
The WordPress 7.1.2 Flaw Was Exploited in Hours. Theme and Host Decide the Damage.
The flaw WordPress patched in 7.1.2 was under attack the day the fix shipped and is on CISA's KEV list. Code execution needs two host-side conditions.
Other
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
A judge revived WP Engine's antitrust claims and held that Automattic and Mullenweg cannot bring trademark counterclaims in their own name.
Industry reports
DropCatch Added 300 Registrars. It Now Holds 45 Percent of All ICANN Accreditations.
ICANN approved 300 more DropCatch shell registrars this month. One company now holds 1,501 of 3,321 accreditations, and the registrar count means less.
M&A
HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.
Managed.com launched on September 17 above HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue and LogoMaker, a group built on more than twenty acquisitions.
Security
cPanel Patches a Root Escalation That Starts From an Ordinary Hosting Account
An authenticated cPanel account holder could run code as root through CalDAV and CardDAV. Three builds carry the fix, dated September 22.
Industry reports
ICANN Confirms 1,616 gTLD Applications Proceed. Reveal Day Expected by October 14.
ICANN confirms 1,616 of 1,663 gTLD applications proceed after payment, with Reveal Day due by October 14 and the exact date still a week away.
Software reviews
Ask nginx Which Config It Is Running. Not Every Build Will Answer.
nginx 1.31.5 adds a REST interface that reads the running config and grades every reload. Whether a server has it is settled at build time.
Other
GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.
GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint each lost core functions in four days, and each company's own account blames an internal change, not an attack.
Security
WordPress 7.1.1 Fixes a Comment-Form XSS. The Payload Passes the Sanitizer.
WordPress 7.1.1 was planned as bug-fix only and shipped with 11 security fixes, one an anonymous comment XSS the sanitizer does not catch.
Security
A Critical libheif Bug Reachable Through WordPress Uploads Still Has No CVE
A CVSS 9.8 flaw sits under WordPress photo uploads, in a system library the host has to patch. Twenty days after the fix, it has no CVE number.
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