WordPress Versions 3.7-4.0 No Longer Get Security Updates
In September, WordPress’ Security Team announced it would be dropping support for versions 3.7 through […]
Tag: security
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iThemes Patches Vulnerability in BackupBuddy, Wordfence Tracks 5 Million Exploit Attempts
BackupBuddy, a commercial plugin from iThemes that performs scheduled backups with remote storage options, has […]
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WordPress To Drop Security Updates for Versions 3.7 Through 4.0 by December, 2022
WordPress’ Security Team announced it will be dropping support for versions 3.7 through 4.0 on […]
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#35 – Akshat Choudhary on the State of WordPress Security
On the podcast today we have Akshat Choudhary. Akshat is the Founder and CEO of BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote and Airlift. These WordPress plugins allow their customers to build, manage and maintain their WordPress websites. He’s based in Bangalore, India and we begin the podcast talking about the state of the WordPress community there. We also talk about why Akshat sees it as useful to bring himself and other members of his team so far to attend WordCamp Europe. What’s in it for them and what’s their approach to the return on this investment? We then get into a discussion of the security landscape and how the products that Akshat and his team make enable site owners to rest more easily. We go into some of the technical details of how the products work and how they fit neatly into an agency wishing to sell care plans to their website clients.
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WordPress.org Forces Security Update for Critical Ninja Forms Vulnerability
Late last week, Ninja Forms users received a forced security update from WordPress.org for a […]
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#20 – Oliver Sild on the State of WordPress Security
On the podcast today we have Oliver Sild from Patchstack. Patchstack is a product which is designed to help you identify plugin vulnerabilities in your WordPress sites. We talk about how, over the past couple of years, Patchstack has released an annual report concerning the state of WordPress security. What are the broad security trends which have emerged over the past 12 months in WordPress Core, plugins and themes. Listen now…
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Patchstack Whitepaper: WordPress Ecosystem Records 150% Increase in Security Vulnerabilities in 2021
Patchstack has published its State of WordPress Security whitepaper with a summary of threats to […]
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UpdraftPlus 1.22.3 Patches Severe Vulnerability Through Forced Security Update from WordPress.org
UpdraftPlus, a plugin that allows users to backup to various cloud providers, has patched a […]
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Essential Addons for Elementor Patches Critical Security Vulnerability
Essential Addons for Elementor, a popular plugin with more than a million active installs, has […]
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All In One SEO Plugin Patches Severe Vulnerabilities
The All In One SEO plugin has patched a set of severe vulnerabilities that were […]
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GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes 1.2 Million Active and Inactive Managed WordPress Hosting Accounts
In a disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was published today, […]
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Patchstack Releases Free Security Plugin, Its Red Team Found 1,182 Vulnerabilities Since March
In September, Patchstack released its six-month report on the vulnerabilities found with WordPress and its […]
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OptinMonster 2.6.5 Patches Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
In late September, Chloe Chamberland, a researcher at Wordfence, discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in the […]
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WP Fastest Cache Patches Authenticated SQL Injection and Stored XSS Via CSRF Vulnerabilities
The Jetpack Scan team has published a summary of two issues recently discovered in the […]
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WooCommerce 5.7.0 Patches Security Issue that Could Potentially Leak Analytics Reports
WooCommerce shipped version 5.7.0 through a forced update for some users earlier this week. The […]