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As it stands, WordPress powers 40% of the world's websites. WordPress websites are used by nearly 409 million people who view over 20 billion pages on a monthly basis. With about 70 million new posts ...

A new vulnerability in WordPress plugin WPTouch highlights a series of recent discoveries that critically affect active plugins downloaded and used by millions of WordPress bloggers. If you're a ...

Security researchers have warned of a critical new zero-day vulnerability in a WordPress plugin actively exploited in the wild. The Fancy Product Designer plugin is installed on over 17,000 sites, ...

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WordPress plugins continue to be under attack by hackers using stolen credentials (from other data breaches) to gain direct access to plugin code. What makes these attacks of particular concern is ...

Vulnerabilities were recently discovered in the popular AMP for WP plugin that allows any registered user to perform administrative actions on a WordPress site. It has now been discovered that an ...