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WordPress is working on automatic updates for themes and plugins

Vulnerabilities in certain plugins and themes on WordPress were regularly in the news in recent months, as it...

Erik Schurer March 16, 2020

Using an automated test kit, South Korean researchers found thirty vulnerabilities in the file upload functio...

Erik Schurer March 5, 2020

More than 35 percent of the websites run on WordPress. This huge attack surface is recently being attacked mo...

Erik Schurer March 2, 2020

Vulnerabilities in several WordPress plugins (including Simple Fields) allow hackers to inject JavaScript cod...

Coen van Eenbergen January 28, 2020

At the end of last week, Google officially introduced the WordPress plugin for Site Kit, which aims to give w...

Editorial Team November 4, 2019

WordPress is working on a plan to forcefully and automatically update old versions to more recent releases. Th...

Berry Zwets August 15, 2019

Attackers have exploited serious vulnerabilities in two commonly used WordPress plug-ins in the wild. These ar...

Eveline Meijer March 25, 2019

WordPress has launched a new version 5.1. Two months ago, WordPress released version 5.0. In addition to the n...

Berry Zwets February 22, 2019

An ex-employee hacked into the popular WordPress WPML plug-in last weekend and warned all end-users that the t...

Floris Hulshoff Pol January 21, 2019

Google has announced in a blog post that it supports an initiative by Automattic, the creator of WordPress. Au...

Eveline Meijer January 15, 2019