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A vast campaign targeting WordPress-based websites was identified by the Wordfence Firewall as it targeted 1.3 million pages, trying to leverage known plugins and theme vulnerabilities.

WordPress is just one of the platforms used to create and deploy websites and, just like its competitors, it’s always subject to attacks. Since it’s a complex ecosystem, with numerous plugins and themes for millions of projects, the area of attack is considerable.

As not all developers fix security problems identified in their components and not all webmasters actually upgrade the components to their…

Over the past few weeks, I have had the GenerateBlocks plugin sitting in my test environment. I have built a few layouts with it, tinkering with the plugin between other projects. The one thing I kept thinking was that it had huge potential. Aside from a couple of issues, I began enjoying the plugin more and more as I played around with its options.

GenerateBlocks was created by Tom Usborne. It was built specifically to work along with his popular GeneratePress theme. However, the plugin claims to work with any WordPress theme.

GenerateBlocks is meant to be the block answer to…

Researchers caught a recent malicious campaign targeting more than a million WordPress websites. As discovered, the hackers targeted all these WordPress Sites to harvest database credentials.

Hackers Target WordPress Sites In A Campaign

Team Wordfence has recently disclosed an orchestrated campaign by hackers targeting numerous WordPress sites.

As revealed in their recent blog post, the team detected over 130 million attacks within three days at the end of May 2020. These attacks collectively targeted around 1.3 million WordPress sites aiming to download their configuration files.

Among…

Continuing with the trail of vulnerable plugins, now joins PageLayer. Researchers found some serious vulnerabilities in PageLayer WordPress plugin that posed a threat to more than 200,000 websites.

PageLayer Plugin Vulnerabilities

Reportedly, team Wordfence has come up with another interesting finding regarding a WordPress plugin. This time, they found a couple of vulnerabilities in the PageLayer WordPress plugin that threatened thousands of websites. They have shared the details in a recent blog post.

Briefly, they found two different vulnerabilities in the plugin.

The first of these is…