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A WordPress pharma hack is a post-compromise SEO spam infection that adds pharmaceutical keywords, links, pages, redirects, or hidden content to a WordPress website without the owner’s permission. It is also commonly called a Viagra hack, pharmaceutical spam hack, or pharma SEO spam.The infection can be confusing because the website may look normal when you […]

An open redirect vulnerability occurs when a web application lets attacker-controlled input determine where a user is redirected without sufficiently restricting the final destination. An attacker can then create a link that begins on a legitimate domain but sends the victim to an external site chosen by the attacker.The simplest impact is phishing: the trusted […]

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) is a web application security vulnerability in which attacker-controlled input causes a server-side component to send a network request to an unintended destination. The defining characteristic is that the sensitive request originates from the server, not from the attacker’s browser.That distinction matters because an application server may be able to reach […]

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a web application vulnerability that allows untrusted data to reach a browser in a context where the browser interprets it as executable code instead of ordinary content. The attacker does not need to compromise the browser itself. The vulnerable website delivers or processes the attacker-controlled content in a way that makes […]

WordPress vs Drupal security is not as simple as comparing vulnerability counts. Drupal generally provides stronger security and governance defaults for complex, multi-user websites, especially around permissions, configuration management, and controlled deployments. WordPress core also has a mature security process and stronger native update automation, but its enormous plugin and theme ecosystem creates more third-party […]

A JavaScript npm supply chain attack targets the software and infrastructure between an npm package maintainer and the application that eventually installs that package. Instead of exploiting a flaw in your own JavaScript first, an attacker may compromise a trusted package, publish a lookalike dependency, abuse package resolution, steal publishing credentials, or execute malicious code […]

If you want to know how to scan JavaScript for vulnerabilities, do not rely on a single security check. A modern JavaScript application can contain weaknesses in the code your team writes, known vulnerabilities in npm dependencies, and security issues that appear only after the application runs in a browser. A useful JavaScript security assessment […]

If you want to know how to scan an IP address for vulnerabilities, the process goes beyond checking whether a few ports are open. A proper assessment verifies the correct and authorized target, identifies reachable TCP and relevant UDP services, fingerprints the software behind them, runs vulnerability-specific checks, validates important findings, prioritizes confirmed weaknesses, applies […]

An IP vulnerability scan checks a specific IP address for security weaknesses that can be detected from the scanner’s location. It identifies reachable ports and services, gathers evidence about the software or configuration behind them, and checks that evidence for known vulnerabilities and security issues. This matters because internet-facing services remain an important route into […]

API security testing is the process of checking application programming interfaces for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, authorization failures, unsafe input handling, and business-logic weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Effective testing combines code analysis, dynamic scanning, fuzzing, specification-based testing, and human review across development and production. This guide explains what to test, which methods and tools to […]

By Obaida Al-Sulaiman, Information Security Manager (CISSP, GXPN, GWAPT). Reviewed September 2026. REST API security is the set of methods and controls that protect RESTful APIs from unauthorized access, data theft, and abuse. It spans authentication, authorization, encryption, rate limiting, inventory, and continuous testing. In Salt Security’s Q1 2025 survey, 99 percent of respondents said […]

API fuzzing is an automated security testing technique that floods your API endpoints with malformed, random, and unexpected inputs to find the bugs and vulnerabilities that normal testing never triggers. Instead of checking whether an endpoint returns the right answer for valid data, an API fuzzer asks what breaks when the data is wrong. This […]