{"id":6819,"date":"2014-06-25T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:49:23","slug":"timthumb-critical-vulnerability-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/timthumb-critical-vulnerability-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"TimThumb Critical Vulnerability Fixed on SiteGround Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6820\" src=\"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/header.jpg\" alt=\"header\" width=\"540\" height=\"122\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Another serious security issue was <a href=\"https:\/\/seclists.org\/fulldisclosure\/2014\/Jun\/117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> earlier today&nbsp;within one of the popular WordPress plugins for managing thumbnails &#8211; TimThumb. This plugin already has a <a href=\"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/wordpress-site-hacked-recently\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">history of causing security issues<\/a> in the past with which&nbsp;we dealt with. The current vulnerability allows the attacker to gain unauthorised access to your hosting account&nbsp;and even execute shell commands on it. Needless to say, this is not something we can allow to happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our security team has reacted immediatelly after the vulnerability was disclosed. We have applied a patch in our in-house system to protect all our customers from getting hacked through TimThumb. Currently, if you&#8217;re hosted on SiteGround, you will be protected against hacking attempts that try to utilise this problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, we strongly recommend that&nbsp;you switch plugins or update TimThumb as soon as new version is released.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[subscribe_cta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another serious security issue was reported earlier today&nbsp;within one of the popular WordPress plugins for managing thumbnails - TimThumb. This plugin already has a history of causing security issues in the past with which&nbsp;we dealt with. 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