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More than 30 WordPress plugins were shut down after a supply-chain backdoor compromised thousands of sites through the Essential Plugin portfolio. A web developer discovered dozens of malicious ...

WordPress plugins are helpful. But they can also slow a site down, invite hackers and even cause a Google penalty. These are my top five considerations when choosing a WordPress plugin. The plugin is ...

Optimizing your web presence is no longer just a “nice to have” option. It’s a necessity. With millions of active users interacting across the Internet at the same time, getting lost in all the noise ...

Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of ...

A security flaw in the Ally WordPress plugin used on more than 400,000 sites could allow attackers to extract sensitive data without logging in. A vulnerability in a widely used WordPress ...

Almost immediately after being disclosed to the public, a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin was used in an attack, security researchers have warned. Wordfence revealed an authentication bypass in ...

Researchers from WPScan find flaw in Hunk Companion, a plugin with roughly 10,000 users The flaw allows crooks to install other plugins from the WP repository, including those with known RCE flaws ...

The RocketGenius website served a malicious variant of the Gravity Forms WordPress add-on for a few hours The variant harvested extensive information and allowed for RCE The malware affected only ...