Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the "Hunk Companion" plugin to install and activate other plugins with exploitable flaws directly from the WordPress.org repository. By installing ...

Hackers have come up with a never-before-seen method of installing backdoored plugins on websites running the open-source WordPress CMS, and this new technique relies on using weakly protected ...

Thousands of WordPress websites are at risk of being completely taken over by hackers, after the updating process of multiple plugins was compromised to deploy malicious code. Security researchers ...

WordPress continues to prove itself as the leading CMS platform with over 40% of active websites on the internet hosted by WordPress. As time goes on, WordPress offers more and more features for users ...

A newly disclosed security vulnerability waffects the BuddyPress plugin, a WordPress plugin installed in over 100,000 websites. The vulnerability, given a threat level rating of 7.3 (high), enables ...

Ostensibly a blogging platform, WordPress has quietly become one of the foundational pillars of the modern web, used as the basic format for millions of websites run by single users to massive ...