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Critical Vulnerability Discovered in WooCommerce

Mission Control Admin WordPress July 15, 2021
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…
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WordPress Now Powers 39.5% of Websites on the Internet

Mission Control Admin WordPress January 4, 2021
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,…
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Contact Form 7 Has Patched a Major Security Vulnerability

Mission Control Admin Security, WordPress December 30, 2020
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…
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WARNING: Hackers Are Attacking WordPress Websites, Creating Fake Admin Accounts

Mission Control Admin Security September 4, 2019
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 The attacks are happening due to outdated versions of various WordPress…
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WordPress 5.2.1 Released

Mission Control Admin WordPress May 22, 2019
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…
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Zero Day Exploit Found in Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress

Mission Control Admin WordPress March 21, 2019
Update: The exploit has been fixed. Please make sure your version of Social Warfare is update to v3.5.3 as soon as possible and before you activate it again. Our development team has submitted Social Warfare…
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WordPress 5.1.1 Released

Mission Control Admin WordPress March 13, 2019
WordPress has released version 5.1.1, a security and maintenance release to patch security holes and bugs. This is the 5th overall release of WordPress 5 since it was first launched on December 6, 2018  …
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WordPress 5.1 Released

Mission Control Admin WordPress February 21, 2019
WordPress has released version 5.1, “Betty”, the follow up release to version 5.0.3 and the 4th overall release of WordPress 5 so far since it was first released on December 6, 2018. This version is…
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1&1 Ionos Webhosting Offered a Client Outdated MySQL As an Upgrade

Mission Control Admin Hosting February 4, 2019
1&1 Hosting, now known as 1&1 Ionos, offered a client version 5.7 of MySQL calling it the latest version and stating that it would be available on February 25th. The actual latest current version of…
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Malware That Can’t Be Removed by an OS Reinstall is Being Used by Russian Hackers

Mission Control Admin Security September 29, 2018
According to a story on PCMag Asia, security experts believe that Russian start sponsored hacker group “Fancy Bear” are using a type of malware that can survive an operating system installation. Typically formatting a hard…
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