Security Scan Results

https://cuny.edu

C

Fair — Some Issues Found

23 issues detected

Scanned 4 months ago

23

Total

0

Critical

1

High

8

Medium

Medium

Plugin 'js_composer' v7.8: WPBakery < 7.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium

Plugin 'js_composer' v7.8: WPBakery Page Builder < 8.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom JS Module

Medium

Plugin 'js_composer' v7.8: WPBakery Page Builder < 8.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via vc_custom_heading Shortcode

Medium

Plugin 'revslider' v6.7.15: Slider Revolution < 6.7.37 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Read via 'used_svg' and 'used_images'

Info

WP_DEBUG is disabled (no PHP errors visible)

Medium

Missing security header: X-Content-Type-Options -- Prevents MIME-type sniffing

How to fix: Add to .htaccess: Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" — prevents MIME-type sniffing.

Medium

Missing security header: Strict-Transport-Security -- Enforces HTTPS connections

How to fix: Add to .htaccess or nginx: Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains"

Info

Missing security header: Content-Security-Policy -- Controls resource loading

Info

Missing security header: Referrer-Policy -- Controls referrer information

Info

Missing security header: Permissions-Policy -- Controls browser feature access

Info

1 of 6 security headers configured

Medium

SSL certificate expires in 15 days

How to fix: Your SSL certificate expires soon. Set up auto-renewal or renew manually.

Info

HTTP correctly redirects to HTTPS

High

CORS reflects arbitrary Origin header — allows any site to read responses

How to fix: Fix your CORS configuration — it reflects any Origin header. Whitelist only trusted domains instead.

Info

WordPress readme exposed (version info)

/readme.html

Info

WordPress license file exposed

/license.txt

Medium

User enumeration possible via REST API -- found: aallouni, aamigon, aarias, abohnenkamp, aborawake

How to fix: Disable the REST API users endpoint with a plugin like Disable REST API or add a filter to block /wp/v2/users.

Low

wp-cron.php is publicly accessible (potential DDoS vector)

/wp-cron.php

How to fix: Disable WP-Cron in wp-config.php with define("DISABLE_WP_CRON", true) and use a real server cron job instead.

Low

External JS from popular domain: www.instagram.com (Tranco rank #12)

How to fix: This script is from a well-known domain (ranked in the top 100K globally). Likely legitimate, but verify it matches a service you intentionally added.

Low

External JS from popular domain: www.browsealoud.com (Tranco rank #38,933)

How to fix: This script is from a well-known domain (ranked in the top 100K globally). Likely legitimate, but verify it matches a service you intentionally added.

Info

2 trusted external script(s): cdnjs.cloudflare.com (CDN), www.googletagmanager.com (Google)

Low

2 external script(s) from popular domains (Tranco top 100K): www.browsealoud.com, www.instagram.com

How to fix: These scripts are from globally popular domains. They are very likely legitimate services but were not in our curated whitelist.

Checked against 11 blacklist services

Spamhaus DBL
SURBL
URIBL
SpamEatingMonkey
Barracuda
SORBS
Invaluement
URLhaus
OpenPhish
Google Safe Browsing
VirusTotal (70+ engines)

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