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WordPress security plugin discovered to have two vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious upload, cross-site scripting and allow viewing of contents of arbitrary files. All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress Plugin The All-In-One Security…

Adobe released a PDF Embed WordPress plugin provides additional ways to display PDFs online in a way that makes them user friendly, pleasantly interactive and useful. The new plugin makes PDF more usable on the web, with four different ways…

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, with a market share of more than 60%. A big support community and a number of available free plugins make building a website with WordPress (WP) affordable, and it…

The founders of Yoast SEO plugin announced an investment in a WordPress accessibility plugin that scans and reports on accessibility issues and makes it easy to troubleshoot entire websites. Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Making a…

Automattic, publishers of the WooCommerce plugin, announced the discovery and patch of a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain Administrator level credentials and perform a…

The United States Government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about a vulnerability discovered in the WP Statistics WordPress plugin that affects up to 600,000 active installations. The vulnerability was assigned…

The United States National Vulnerability Database published an advisory of an XSS vulnerability affecting the popular Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder, which exposes over 200,000 active installs to the vulnerability. Stored Cross Site…

The United States National Vulnerability Database published an advisory about two vulnerabilities discovered in the All In One SEO WordPress plugin. All In One SEO (AIOSEO) plugin, which has over three million active installations, is…

National Vulnerability Database published a vulnerability advisory about the ShortPixel Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin used by over 600,000 websites. A high severity vulnerability was discovered that could allow an attacker to upload…

Security threats are not unique to WordPress. Every platform, whether it’s private or open source, is under attack 24/7. Fortunately, the WordPress community provides many solutions to make the job easier. The following are a few key steps…