The world of WordPress is always busy with news and updates. The second half of June has seen a number of WordPress Plugin vulnerabilities affecting a big number of websites. Let us take a closer look at this security news and updates and see how these have been handled. WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities Following you will find a list of the most critical vulnerabilities. Namely Prismatic. This WordPress Plugin has been hit with a high-risk vulnerability, a Reflected Cross-Site … [Read more...] about June WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2
June WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 1
The first half of June was a period of time with a great number of WordPress security incidents. Over 40 Plugin Vulnerabilities were detected affecting more than 7 million websites. This is indeed a number that can not be ignored. So let us take a closer look at some of those vulnerabilities. WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities Jetpack. With over 5 million installations this Plugin was affected by a Carousel Non-Published Page/Post Attachment Comment Leak. A patch is released in … [Read more...] about June WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 1
May WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2
Every month is full of interesting and useful WordPress News and Updates; the second half of May was yet again a period filled with news. WordPress News and Updates Happy 18th Birthday WordPress! On the 27th of May, WordPress celebrated its 18th Birthday! And what a magnificent milestone this has been... Since its last birthday, the 40th release has been rolled out and WordPress now is powering over 40% of the web. WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities During the last half of May, … [Read more...] about May WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2
May WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 1
As we are wrapping up the first half of the month, we have compiled some exciting news and information regarding WordPress. So let us have a closer look. WordPress Updates and Releases WordPress Release 5.7.2. A new release was rolled out on the 12th of May, and this was a Security Release patching a Critical Object Injection vulnerability in PHPMailer. The latter is a component that is used for sending out emails. WordPress Plugins Vulnerabilities No month goes by … [Read more...] about May WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 1
April WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2
The WordPress ecosystem is an active community with a lot of security news and updates. Just like the months before it, April too was also filled with security news. Here is a round-up of the most significant updates from April volume #2. WordPress Security News and Vulnerabilities WooCommerce.The very popular WordPress plugin was detected with an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. You can read more about this medium risk security issue here and you must update the … [Read more...] about April WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2