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Malware scanner jeopardizes more than 10,000 WordPress sites

Malware scanner jeopardizes more than 10,000 WordPress sites

Two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins from miniOrange will never receive a patch. More than 10,000 websites use the Malware Scanner plugin to detect attackers. However, the tool itself is exploitable by malicious actors. The vulnerability in Malware Scanner was found by WordPress res... Read more

date4 days ago
WordPress in negotiations with OpenAI and Midjourney over AI deal

WordPress in negotiations with OpenAI and Midjourney over AI deal

Automattic announced that it is negotiating with OpenAI and Midjourney for an AI deal. With this deal user data from WordPress users, among others, will enter training data for LLMs from these AI companies. WordPress has stated that it will not share data coming from its paying WordPress VIP users.... Read more

date18 days ago
Number of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins doubled

Number of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins doubled

The number of vulnerabilities in plugins and themes for WordPress has increased significantly over the past year. There is almost a doubling compared to 2022. That's according to research by WordFence. 4,833 vulnerabilities were identified for the entire WordPress ecosystem in the past year. The... Read more

date2 months ago
Vulnerability in popular WordPress plugin affects million websites

Vulnerability in popular WordPress plugin affects million websites

The WordPress plugin Better Search Replace has a critical vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting. That's what the security experts at Wordfence Intelligence found. The popular WordPress plugin Better Search Replace has over 1 million installs worldwide. The plugin allows WordPress to... Read more

date2 months ago
150,000 WordPress sites at risk due to vulnerable SMTP plug-in

150,000 WordPress sites at risk due to vulnerable SMTP plug-in

A popular WordPress plug-in intended to send emails faster has been found to leave 150,000 websites vulnerable to a takeover. The developer of the POST SMTP plugin has acted swiftly, meaning a patch is already available. Wordfence reports that the vulnerability was submitted during a bug bounty ... Read more

date2 months ago
Bug in WordPress plugin exposes 600,000 vulnerable websites

Bug in WordPress plugin exposes 600,000 vulnerable websites

A plugin to make WordPress sites load faster is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. WP Fastest Cache is deployed by more than a million websites. The majority of these sites (600,000) are still running a vulnerable version. It's easy to see why WP Fastest Cache is so popular: its creators pro... Read more

date4 months ago
WordPress owner acquires all-in-one messaging app Texts.com

WordPress owner acquires all-in-one messaging app Texts.com

Automattic, the owner of WordPress and Tumblr, has acquired the all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50 million (€47 million). The purpose of the acquisition is to accelerate the messaging app's development. The acquisition gives Automattic an all-in-one messaging app that merges several ot... Read more

date5 months ago
Thousands of hacked WordPress sites redirect visitors to scam sites

Thousands of hacked WordPress sites redirect visitors to scam sites

Thousands of WordPress websites have fallen victim to a hack on the tagDiv plug-in. Hackers infected this plug-in with the Balada Injector. 155,000 WordPress websites are working with the hacked plug-in, according to figures from EnvatoMarkets. The plug-in in question is necessary to obtain two... Read more

date5 months ago
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