WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are known to be ...

Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of ...

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” ...

If you sell any type of product or service on a WordPress site, you can benefit from installing a WordPress review plugin. With reviews for your services or products and increasing social proof, ...

A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP scripts that create new accounts with administrative privileges on websites running ...

The best WordPress themes are updated regularly to improve functionality, fix security issues and ensure compatibility with WordPress updates. Your theme should at least have been updated when the ...

W3 Total Cache (W3TC), a WordPress plugin with more than a million users, carries a critical-severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to fully take over compromised websites, experts have ...

A collective of former WordPress developers and contributors backed by the Linux Foundation has launched the FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress ...

The move likely won’t have direct impact on most enterprise users, but indirect impact — which could be just as bad — is a definite possibility. Editor’s note: On Jan. 3, 2025, WordPress.org staff ...

Older versions of Post SMTP allowed hackers to read all emails They could also reset the admin password and read the notification email, gaining access to the account More than 160,000 WordPress sites ...

WordPress.org has introduced a fork of a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced ...