Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
A pre-auth zero-day in Magento / Adobe Commerce is being weaponised to plant backdoors on live storefronts — no patch exists yet, making WAF-based virtual patching the only immediate shield for affected retailers.
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Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5.
Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4. "Sansec is
Editorial Analysis
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Pre-auth RCE with no patch means detection must compensate — webshell indicators, unexpected outbound connections from commerce servers, and anomalous PHP process spawning are key signals.
Deploy webshell-detection rules and monitor commerce-server logs for unauthenticated code-execution indicators shared by Sansec.
An unpatched zero-day is actively compromising online stores; mitigation costs are low but delay increases breach-notification risk under GDPR.
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