Malicious plugins for WordPress websites are being used not just to maintain access on the compromised server but also to mine for cryptocurrency. Researchers at website security company Sucuri ...

Check its WordPress.org listing for the last-updated date, the number of active installations, and its support responsiveness. A plugin actively maintained with a large install base and recent updates ...

I hear that plugins are a hotbed for vulnerabilities, so wouldn't it be safer to just build my own?To put it briefly, this intuition is half right and half dangerous.The part about "reducing the ...

The bug has been under active attack as a zero-day. A critical vulnerability in a WordPress plugin known as “ThemeREX Addons” could open the door for remote code execution in tens of thousands of ...

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 ...

The authors of the Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress have just released version 3.6.3 to address a critical remote code execution flaw that may impact as many as 500,000 websites.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This past October, the WordPress security team used an internal feature to push a security update to a popular plugin. The ability to ...

An advisory was issued for a critical vulnerability rated 9.8/10 in the CleanTalk Antispam WordPress plugin, installed in over 200,000 websites. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to ...