Magento security patches are small pieces of code that are released by Magento whenever they find any security vulnerability with the system. It is a good idea to install any security patch released by Magento as soon as you get to know about it. The more you delay installation of such patches the more you make your store vulnerable to security risks. Especially since after the release of such patches the vulnerability itself comes into the limelight and gets discussed on various blogs and forums, thus giving ideas to hackers who wouldn’t have even known about it earlier.
About SUPEE-8167
The latest security patch released by Magento is codenamed “SUPEE-8167” and addresses PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) changes.
Here’s what Magento’s notification on this update says about SUPEE 8167:
SUPEE-8167 is a New Patch for PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Changes. Upgrade to 1.9.3.3 or SUPEE-8167 by June 30, 2017 to Avoid Service Disruptions.
As of June 30, 2017, PayPal Instant Payment Notifications will no longer allow you to use HTTP to post messages back to PayPal for verification. To comply with these changes, all merchants using PayPal must upgrade to Community Edition 1.9.3.3 or apply the SUPEE-8167 patch. Updates must be in place by June 30, 2017 to avoid any service disruptions.
So if you are using PayPal as your payment gateway, you should install this patch immediately.
How To Ensure Your Store Security?
Apart from installing all the patches released by Magento as and when you get to know about them. You should also get a technical and security audit done for your store, to make sure you haven’t missed out any security patch in the past.
Magereport.com is a good website to quickly check if your store is lacking any of the security patches.
Once you find out the missing patches from Mageport you can go ahead and download the missing patches and get them installed in your store.
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