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 plugin to the latest release to tackle the issue. Conditional Marketing Mailer for WooCommerce. This WordPress plugin utilised to send customised … [Read more...] about April WordPress Security Updates and News-Volume 2
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April 2021 WordPress Security Updates and News- Volume 1
The WordPress ecosystem is a powerful and buzzing community with Updates being released regularly and Security News on WordPress vulnerabilities popping up frequently. So let’s catch up with the most significant News and Security from the first half of April. WordPress Releases and Updates WordPress 5.7.1 Security and Maintenance Release was rolled out only a few days ago. This is a release that features 26 bug fixes and 2 security fixes. WordPress Security News and Vulnerabilities The first half of the month featured some rather significant WordPress security vulnerabilities. Here is a list of those: iThemes … [Read more...] about April 2021 WordPress Security Updates and News- Volume 1
March WordPress Security Updates, Releases and News – Volume 2
The news and updates from the WordPress ecosystem are always interesting. As March has come to an end let us have a look at the most significant news from the Community and find out all about the major security incidents. WordPress News, Updates and Releases Following the “Esmeralda” release which was a major core update, there is a new maintenance release scheduled to roll out in April. It is supposed to tackle bug issues. WordPress Security Vulnerabilities In the last two weeks of March some very significant Security issues were noted. Let us have a quick look at those. A … [Read more...] about March WordPress Security Updates, Releases and News – Volume 2
March WordPress Security Updates and News- Volume 1
WordPress Releases and News WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” was rolled out earlier this month. Named after Esperanza Spalding, a modern musical prodigy, the first WordPress release of 2021 brought great features to the users. These include brand new colours in the admin, and strategically placing the controls you use the most, closer to you, so that you have easy access to them. What is more, the editor enables you to work in places around the website that you would not be allowed in the past (unless you were a pro or a code-savvy user). WordPress dropping support for Internet Explorer 11? As the number of users … [Read more...] about March WordPress Security Updates and News- Volume 1
February’s WordPress Security News and Updates
Starting from March we will be looking at the latest WordPress security updates and some interesting news from the WordPress Ecosystem. We will be taking a closer look at what has taken place and listing the most significant and noteworthy pieces of information. So let us begin. WordPress Releases WordPress 5.6.2 Release is out and it is a maintenance release coming with 5 bug fixes. You can read more about the release here.WordPress 5.7 Beta 3 became available for testing. WordPress News According to a survey conducted by W3Techs, WordPress holds now a fascinating 40.4% of the websites available out there while maintaining a … [Read more...] about February’s WordPress Security News and Updates