‘Thousands of WordPress websites use malicious plugins’
Researchers found malicious plugins on nearly 25,000 WordPress websites.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered 47,337 malicious plugins on 24,931 unique WordPress websites. Each website used two or more infected plugins. 94 percent were actively engaged in malicious acti... Read more
WordPress websites get a forced update
The UpdraftPlus vulnerability allowed anyone to make database backups, but a patch has been force installed on millions of WordPress sites to fix this issue
WordPress recently launched a forced update to millions of websites to fix a critical vulnerability found in the UpdraftPlus plugin. It all... Read more
‘More external WordPress plugins with vulnerabilities in 2021’
In a recent study, Risk Based Security concludes that the number of third-party WordPress plugins with vulnerabilities has increased significantly in the past year.
According to the security specialists, 10,359 vulnerabilities were discovered in 2021 among providers of WordPress plugins. A total... Read more