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Critical vulnerability in Jetpack plugin affects millions of WordPress websites

Again, new reports of security flaws that could affect the millions of WordPress users, the most popular content management system (CMS), have appeared. According to web application security specialists, the presence of a critical vulnerability has been detected in Jetpack, one of the most widely used WordPress plugins. Jetpack has free security, performance, and website […]

Ad Inserter, a WordPress plugin, allows remote code execution

Experts in vulnerability testing discovered a critical flaw in Ad Inserter, a plugin for advertising management on WordPress sites. If exploited, this flaw would allow any low-privileged user to execute code on the compromised web server. After the presence of this flaw was verified, multiple members of the cybersecurity community recommended that system administrators using […]

Plugins for Text Editors Help Hackers Gain Elevated Privileges

Doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, designer or a writer, a good text editor always help you save time and make you work in a more efficient way. For example, the use of Sublime while programming because it includes some useful tools like ‘syntax highlighting’ and ‘auto-complete’ that every advanced text editor should have. The […]

Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions Every Developer Must Know

Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers out there in the wild. It has created its special place in the hearts of the Internet users, and you might be using it as your primary browser. One of the reasons for Chrome to be popular among all kinds of users, whether consumers or developers, […]

XSS Vulnerability Found in Famous WordPress Plugins

Researchers have identified a relatively “common” cross-site scripting flaw (XSS) in some famous WordPress plugins — A coordinated plugin update has been released to address the detected cross-site scripting vulnerability. In case you are using any of the WordPress plugins mentioned below you must install the update released today to eliminate the “common” cross-site scripting vulnerability. Here […]

Vulnerability in WordPress Plugin Allows Hackers to take full control of website

WordPress’s MainWP Child Plugin has vulnerability… and it is very much exploitable. Researchers at Sucuri have identified a vulnerability in the MainWP Child plugin for WordPress, which according to them is potentially exploitable and can allow hackers to fully control any website. Mickael Nadeau, Sucuri’s security and vulnerability researcher, revealed the finding in his blog […]