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Jupiter theme and plugins for WordPress are critically vulnerable
Plugins for WordPress are frequently causing security issues with their bugs. Last month we have shared the Elementor vulnerability that ...
The Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable
Some of the WordPress plugins are putting the websites at risk by creating a security flaw in the instance. The ...
Malware found in GoDaddy Managed Hosting websites
Wordfence announced that they have noticed an increase in infected websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, including MediaTemple, tsoHost, ...
Reflected XSS found in a popular WordPress plugin
Wordfence Threat Intelligence team pinpoints a new threat for WordPress users. According to the announcement, they have discovered a reflected ...
UpdraftPlus vulnerability puts 3 million WordPress sites at risk
The Wordfence team announced that they have discovered a vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a popular WordPress backup, restore and clone plugin ...
7 best WordPress security plugins for 2022
With 75 million active websites on the internet, WordPress has a dominating market share, around 75%, in the content management ...
1.6 million WordPress sites are under attack
The developers of the WordPress security plugin, Wordfence, have announced an ongoing attack targeting WordPress-based websites using specific plugins or ...
Attackers sending out login attempts to WordPress from AWS instances
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team announced that they had noticed a significant increase in malicious login attempts targeting WordPress sites ...
GoDaddy data breach spreads to its brands
The hosting giant, GoDaddy announced that they have suffered a data breach a few days ago. Wordfence stated that they ...
Over 1M WordPress sites impacted by a plugin vulnerability
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team announced a vulnerability that they have found in Starter Templates - Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver ...
Wordfence becomes CVE Numbering Authority
A CNA is an organization that has the authority to assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities for a defined scope. Wordfence is ...
Two vulnerabilities patched in Facebook’s WordPress plugin
Wordfence announced that its Threat Intelligence team disclosed a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin called Facebook for WordPress, formerly ...
Wordfence pinpoints cross-site scripting vulnerabilities affecting over 7 million sites
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team announced that they have discovered Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in Elementor, which is a popular WordPress ...
KingComposer patches XSS flaw
Drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress, KingComposer patched a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-15299 and a severity score of 6.1. The Wordfence ...
Over 900,000 WordPress sites are under attack
Wordfence team announced that over 900,000 WordPress sites are under attack, approximately 30 times the normal volume. The attacks, targetting ...
Vulnerability in ThemeREX is now patched
Wordfence announced that they found a critical zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin, ThemeREX addon. Wordfence also announced that ...
Vulnerabilities in WordPress Database Reset Plugin patched
Wordfence has announced that their Threat Intelligence team has discovered important vulnerabilities in a WordPress plugin which is installed on ...