Cybercriminals have begun to exploit a critical vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress, enabling them to create accounts with administrative privileges and install backdoors for long-term access. Installed on over 30,000 sites,...
In recent times, cybercriminals have intensified their assaults on WordPress-based sites, employing a cunning method of infection. Sucuri, a company specializing in web security, has uncovered a new campaign aimed at script injection. Previously,...
ThreatMon, a cyber threat analysis platform, has reported the emergence of an advertisement on a notorious hacker forum offering a Zero Day exploit for WordPress for sale. The vendor claims that this exploit, implemented...
In the intricate web of WordPress plugins, Contact Form 7 stands out for its versatility and popularity, boasting over 5 million installations. But with great popularity comes great responsibility, and recently, a flaw has...
In the realm of website performance optimization, the WP Fastest Cache plugin has emerged as a trusted ally for over a million WordPress websites, promising enhanced speed through efficient caching of static HTML files....
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress content management system, will force a security update to be deployed on more than 5 million websites running the Jetpack WordPress plugin. Jetpack is a very popular WordPress...
WordPress announced that it considers Google’s new FLoC tracking technology to be a security issue and plans to block it by default on the WordPress site. With the emphasis on user privacy protection, more...
The most well-known and most popular blogging platform in the world, WordPress is considering abandoning support for Internet Explorer 11 because the browser’s usage rate has fallen below 1%. WordPress used multiple dimensions to...
Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/auth.log and bans IP addresses conducting too many failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses, for a configurable...
According to security researchers from Sucuri and Malwarebytes, thousands of WordPress sites were hacked and maliciously attacked this month. Although the entries for these events seem to be different, they all follow a similar pattern...
