Here you will find all the articles with the tag: plugin.
WordPress users can now easily integrate with the Fediverse, thanks to the new ActivityPub for WordPress plugin. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other web publishing tools, recently acquired the plugin and hired its developer, Matthias Pfefferle, to work for the company. The plu... Read more
13 days ago
Researchers found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin popular among schools. The premium version of the WordPress School Management plugin for WordPress has had a backdoor ever since the release of version 8.9 in 2021. Schools use the plugin to operate and manage their websites. The back... Read more
10 months ago
Critical vulnerabilities in WordPress tend to linger. Some website and plugin developers aren't patching fast enough, says WordPress security specialist Patchstack in a recent report. A survey by Patchstack shows that the number of WordPress vulnerabilities increased by as much as 150 percent in... Read more
1 year ago
Details of severe vulnerabilities in a widely-used WordPress plugin reveal that more than 100,000 websites may have been exposed to site takeovers. The details were revealed by security researcher Chloe Chamberland at Wordfence. The flaws were found in ‘Responsive Menu,’ a plugin that offers... Read more
2 years ago
Viktor Gazdag, security consultant at the NCC Group, has found and reported vulnerabilities in over 100 different Jenkins plug-ins over the past 18 months. Gazdag has informed developers, but many plugins haven't gotten a fix yet. The Jenkins team has published ten security advisories on vulnerabil... Read more
4 years ago
Attackers have exploited serious vulnerabilities in two commonly used WordPress plug-ins in the wild. These are the plugins Easy WP SMTP and Social Warfare, which have been installed 300,000 times and 70,000 times respectively. The errors have already been fixed, but those patches have not yet been ... Read more
4 years ago
Zoom.ai has launched a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook. The plugin should give more control over the workload of meetings, files and e-mails. It is also important to speed up the entire experience within the e-mail client. That's what UCToday reports. The plugin is located in the Outlook client and... Read more
4 years ago
Hackers have been able to exploit a second vulnerability in a commonly used WordPress plugin in just one week. That's what sets WordPress security company Defiant against ZDNet. Right now, the attacks are being carried out. It's the second separate wave of hack attempts against WordPress sites sinc... Read more
4 years ago
A large number of CMS plug-ins and PHP libraries deliberately disable the validation of SSL/TLS certificates, reports ZDNet. This would put millions of Internet users at risk. In addition, many of the plugins and libraries are used to establish connections to payment service providers that later sen... Read more
4 years ago
