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
European e-commerce operators face immediate exposure: pre-auth RCE without a vendor fix means attackers can backdoor storefronts at scale, risking payment-data theft and GDPR-reportable breaches.
Identify all Magento/Adobe Commerce deployments, deploy Sansec-recommended WAF rules, and enable file-integrity monitoring until an official patch ships.
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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