Seriously? Pi-Hole Got Hacked. Again.
Right, listen up you lot. Apparently, the geniuses over at Pi-hole had a data breach. Not because of *their* core code, oh no. It was thanks to some utterly shite WordPress plugin called GiveWP. A donation plugin, for fuck’s sake! Someone exploited a vulnerability in it – specifically, an unrestricted file upload that let attackers write PHP files wherever they pleased.
This meant they could snag user data from the Pi-hole forums and website, including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses (lovely), hashed passwords (hopefully salted, but don’t hold your breath) and even some forum posts. They’re saying around 35,000 accounts were affected. Thirty-five *thousand*. Because someone couldn’t be bothered to properly secure a donation form.
They patched it, naturally, after the fact. And they’re forcing password resets. Fantastic. Just what everyone wants to do – change another damn password because some plugin developer clearly doesn’t know how to code. They claim no payment information was accessed, which is… reassuring, I guess? Though honestly, at this point, who even trusts them?
The whole thing just screams “basic security hygiene failure.” Honestly, it’s pathetic.
Related Anecdote:
Reminds me of this one time a sysadmin I knew decided to use a publicly available script for a web form. No validation, no sanitization, just… straight into the database. Predictably, it got pwned within 48 hours. He blamed the users. *The users*. Some people shouldn’t be allowed near computers, let alone responsible for anything remotely connected to the internet.
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