A critical vulnerability was discovered in a popular WordPress security plugin with over 4 million installations. The flaw allows attackers to log in as any user, including administrators, and gain ...

Effectively managing your own passwords under any circumstances is hard work but managing your users’ passwords on a WordPress installation can become the job from hell. Say you’re the admin of a ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have found a critical vulnerability affecting millions of WordPress websites which could grant attackers full control over the vulnerable website. Security professionals from ...

Pirated (aka nulled) themes and plugins were the most common source of malware infections on WordPress sites in 2020, according to Wordfence, a provider of website application firewall (WAF) solutions ...

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 ...

A WordPress plugin installed on over 300,000 sites was recently modified to download and install a hidden backdoor. The WordPress team has intervened and removed this plugin from the official ...

Security researchers find high-severity flaw in popular WordPress plugin It allowed threat actors to run malicious code remotely A patch was released in late January 2025 Jupiter X Core, a popular ...

Typically what happens is that a plugin contains a weakness (a vulnerability) that allows an attacker to compromise individual sites that use that version of a plugin. But these compromises are ...

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered impacting the WordPress plugin 'Really Simple Security' (formerly 'Really Simple SSL'), including both free and Pro versions. Really ...