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Security researcher at Automattic discovered a vulnerability affecting popular WordPress backup plugin, UpdraftPlus. The vulnerability allowed hackers to download user names and hashed passwords.

Malicious plugins that hide in plain sight and act as backdoors are used by attackers to gain and maintain a foothold on WordPress websites, and to upload web shells and scripts for brute-forcing ...

Updates have been released for UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over 3 million installations, after a vulnerability was discovered by Jetpack security researcher Marc Montpas. Montpas said the ...

WordPress has taken the rare step of force-updating the UpdraftPlus plugin on all sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability allowing website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which ...

WordPress is a frequent target for hacking. Hackers are targeting the theme, the core WordPress files, plugins, and even the login page. These are the steps to take to make it less likely to be hacked ...

Plugins are a great way to expend the functionality offered by the WordPress blogging platform. There's a broad and active development community creating a wide array of plugins that add a wide range ...

An oversight in a WordPress plug-in exposes PII and authentication data to malicious insiders. The WordPress plug-in “UpdraftPlus” was patched on Wednesday to correct a vulnerability that left ...

Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced update over the past day to fix a critical vulnerability in a plugin called UpdraftPlus. The mandatory patch came at the request of UpdraftPlus ...