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A critical vulnerability in a WordPress plugin under active attack, risking over 17,000 websites

June 3, 2021 Wordpress News 0

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A zero-day vulnerability allows attackers to upload malicious files on e-commerce websites, eventually taking over their databases for customer information.

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A new security risk has been discovered by the Threat Intelligence team at Wordfence.
The vulnerability affects a WordPress plugin that allows the upload of images and PDF files for products.
A threat report states that it is under active attack since January 30, 2021.

A new vulnerability has been found in a WordPress plugin that affects over 17,000 websites. The vulnerability is actively being…

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Weekly threat roundup: Froala, WordPress, Siemens

June 3, 2021 Wordpress News 0

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Patch management is far easier said than done, and security teams may often be forced into prioritising fixes for several business-critical systems, all released at once. It’s become typical, for example, to expect dozens of patches to be released on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, with other vendors also routinely getting in on the act.

Below, IT Pro has collated the most pressing disclosures from the last seven days, including details such as a summary of the exploit mechanism, and whether the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. This is in order to give teams a sense of which bugs…

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Custom User Avatar Plugins for WordPress – WordPress Tavern

June 3, 2021 Wordpress News 0

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You know what one of the great things about open source is? Others can use a project’s code, share it wholesale, modify it, and/or distribute their changes. These are the pillars upon which WordPress stands. It is a beautiful thing to watch in practice.

Most often, it means we can build off the shoulders of those giants who came before us, continually improving the software for ourselves and others. It is how WordPress got its start nearly two decades ago as a fork of the b2/cafelog blogging system.

Sometimes, it just means having the freedom to give your friend a copy of…

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