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WordPress Hosted Sites in Ukraine Actively Attacked

At least 30 Ukrainian university websites have been hacked in a targeted attack allegedly launched in support of Russia’s invasion of the European country. Researchers from Wordfence said the company…

PravinKarthik March 3, 2022

Security

WordPress Plugin Updraftplus Vulnerability affects 3 million sites

The Wordfence team announced that they have discovered a vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a popular WordPress backup, restore and clone plugin that has been installed more than 3 million times. The…

PravinKarthik February 18, 2022

PHP Everywhere Plugin Bug Affects WordPress Sites

A Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in PHP Everywhere exposed by the threat intelligence team. This WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 websites. One of these vulnerabilities allowed any authenticated user…

PravinKarthik February 9, 2022

Millions of WordPress Sites are in a Attack

Wordfence researchers spotted a massive wave of attacks in the days that are targeting over 1.6 million WordPress sites from 16,000 IPs. Our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in…

PravinKarthik December 10, 2021

Brizy Vulnerability Affects 90k Sites

Researchers have unearthed Potentially exploitable bugs were found in the Brizy Page Builder, a WordPress plugin that is installed across more than 90,000 websites. The company’s Threat Intelligence team reported…

PravinKarthik October 16, 2021