It's an interesting paradox. WordPress powers 35 percent of all websites on the Internet, in part because it's so flexible and modular. It has a robust library of more than 50,000 plugins, each adding ...

WordPress announced a major clampdown to protect its theme and plugin ecosystem from password insecurity. These improvements follow a flurry of attacks in June that compromised multiple plugins at the ...

Israeli application security firm Checkmarx said its WordPress plugin analysis found seven out of the 10 most popular e-commerce plugins contain vulnerabilities. The security firm found SQL injection ...

WordPress announced a proposal to take a more proactive approach toward third party plugins in order to improve security and site performance. What is being discussed is a plugin checker that will ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations is urging WordPress users to patch plugins for the popular content management system following a spate of ISIS-branded website attacks. The warning from the FBI ...

Critical WordPress plugin flaw exposed some 40,000 users ...

A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites. In total, threat actors compromised 40 themes and 53 ...

Thousands of WordPress websites are at risk of being completely taken over by hackers, after the updating process of multiple plugins was compromised to deploy malicious code. Security researchers ...

WordPress is one of the most widely-used Content Management Systems on the planet. With over 43% of websites using the platform, it’s no surprise that it has a target on its back. That not only means ...

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