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WooCommerce sent out a barrage of emails to users today with the first one arriving in a client’s inbox around 6:30pm Central USA time warning of a critical vulnerability found in their plugin between versions v3.3 to v5.5. That is a very wide range of versions and it is likely that any website using WooCommerce […]
The WordPress CMS now powers the 39.5% of websites on the internet. This according to the website W3 Techs, which scans the web to understand what technologies each website uses and publishes that data. Wow, WordPress is starting the year off on a strong note. Just last month at State of the Word 2020 the […]
The popular Contact Form 7 plugin released an urgent update to patch a major security vulernability on December 17th. This is version 5.3.2 of the plugin. This vulnerability impacts over 5 million WordPress websites and is considered an urgent, critical, fix. “Contact Form 7 5.3.2 has been released. This is an urgent security and maintenance […]
ZDNet tells us that WordPress websites are under a major attack and that the attackers are creating fake admin accounts to take over websites. The attacks are happening due to outdated versions of various WordPress plugins. These attacks started in July of this year, but were fairly benign at the start as they were only […]
WordPress has released version 5.21.1, a maintenance release to patch several bugs. This is the 7th overall release of WordPress 5 since it was first launched on December 6, 2018 and the first update to v5.2. This release fixes 33 bugs across 32 tickets, most of which were introduced with v5.2. Durability: This is considered […]
