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 ...

WordPress plugins are helpful. But they can also slow a site down, invite hackers and even cause a Google penalty. These are my top five considerations when choosing a WordPress plugin. The plugin is ...

A widespread exploitation campaign is targeting WordPress websites with GutenKit and Hunk Companion plugins vulnerable to ...

Many websites exposed to account takeover due to a critical vulnerability in the email delivery WordPress plugin Post SMTP.

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

The U.S government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published warnings of vulnerabilities in five WooCommerce WordPress plugins affecting over 135,000 installations. Many of the vulnerabilities ...

Threat actors are attempting to exploit three critical CVEs from 2024 impacting two popular WordPress plugins, according to Wordfence. The security vendor claimed that the bugs affect the GutenKit and ...

Security researchers at Wordfence reported a vulnerability in the Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress. As the name suggests, this plugin allows site owners to scan for ...

Researchers said on Friday that they found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin that gave attackers full control of websites that used the package, which is marketed to schools. Jetpack said it ...