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SiteGround’s AI plugin may not be malware, but that is not the real concern. If an AI-connected plugin can touch WooCommerce orders, customer details, and site data, site owners deserve clear answers before it appears on a live site. What’s at risk?
Transitioning to PHP 8.3 is a game-changer for your WordPress site’s performance, security, and user experience. With PHP 7.4 and 8.0 discontinued, upgrading is essential to leverage faster page loads, reduced server load, and enhanced security. Discover how PHP 8.3’s features, like faster compilation times, can optimize your site’s speed and efficiency. Learn the steps to identify your current PHP version, ensure compatibility, and smoothly transition to the latest PHP.
Popular WordPress plugin, Elementor, has a severe exploit that could affect more than 4 million websites. The exploit affects all versions prior to 2.8.5. Users are encouraged to update their plugins ASAP.
We’ve been warning users about the impending doom regarding their websites and security, and today, Google has started their campaign to notify webmasters too. HTTPSmageddon, HTTPS-mageddon, SSLmageddon or SSL-mageddon – whatever way you want to say it, the storm has arrived! I’m going to use SSL-mageddon, it just looks nicer! :)
On January 16th, 2018, WordPress pushed out their latest update for their software. For most people, this means they have upgraded to 4.9.2 automatically, but because this was a security update, anyone using older versions of WordPress also received some form of an update! What’s In The New Update? In short, not much. This was
Earlier today, WordPress released a new update to take care of some security issues. If you’re running WordPress on your website, and have auto-update enabled, then your site will update today March 6th, 2017. If you have the automatic updates turned off, it’s recommended to make the update as there are some potential security issues
I hope you enjoyed the Christmas Holidays because we’re right back into software security and vulnerability issues. This week, we’re looking at PHPMailer 5.2.18 and lower. LegalHackers released an announcement on Christmas Day that a new vulnerability has been discovered in PHPMailer 5.2.18, and as a result, the WordPress Core software. You can read the
Hacked websites happen on a regular basis, and it seems as if every couple of weeks we see another news alert about the latest “largest data breach ever” being perpetrated by a group of unknown persons. September 2016 is a month like any other, with various alerts and warnings, however, Yahoo! has just announced a