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Number of vulnerabilities found in WordPress plugins and themes jumped 150% between 2020 and 2021
A year-on-year surge has been observed in the number of security vulnerabilities found in the WordPress ecosystem.
The number of flaws reported in plugins and themes for WordPress was 150% higher in 2021 than in 2020, according to researchers at WordPress security firm Patchstack. As many as 29% of critical vulnerabilities were never patched.
WordPress powers just over 40% of all websites, but bugs in plugins and themes can render those sites vulnerable…
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