If you’re selling products or services online, you might have a well-developed eCommerce store. How about having separate stores for your retail and wholesale transactions or different stores for different regions / countries with restricted inventories or diferent stores for different locales? Yes, you read that right! PrestaShop made it possible with its convenient Multistore feature.
The continuous expansion of online purchase and more people embracing online shopping has given new entities to e-commerce platforms. Every other business person thinks that having an e-commerce portal will be a successful turn for his or her business. The ubiquity of internet accessibility and the reliability of accessing these platforms in different countries and languages have enabled firms to trade their products without geographic limitations.
WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS). It offers a wide range of tools and plugins so that the user who wants to start a website, can use this platform without hassle. WordPress can be used for:
In this digital era, most people don’t have time to go shopping, so instead of physically visiting shopping stores, they prefer to check out the products online and purchase their essentials from e-stores. Along with that, attention spans are reducing, and the choices of online stores to buy are increasing. If a store cannot engage the customer quickly, the customer can go to another store.
PrestaShop is an open-source E-Commerce platform that allows its users to launch their e-commerce stores according to their preferences. It is a free & open source platform. It is quite a popular e-commerce platform along with Woocommerce & Magento, in the league of self-hosted e-commerce platforms.
PrestaShop has recently found a major security vulnerability on core PrestaShop software which is affecting PrestaShop websites that are old versions or have custom code which is vulnerable to SQL injection. The vulnerability exploits the flaw in PrestaShop code through SQL injection by creating a file on the root folder (blm.php) and then directs the customers to a fake checkout page which sends the customer payment to the hacker’s account. This is a major vulnerability.
Malware is a piece of code that is injected into your website by the attackers and your website may behave in the following ways. In all of the above cases, Google and other anti-virus vendors will block your website with a message which asks the users not to open your website as it hosts malicious code, which leads to loss of business/customer base.
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