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CVE-2024-1071 - Critical Vulnerability in Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin

A critical security flaw, known as CVE-2024-1071, has been found in the Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, poses a significant risk to over 200,000 active installations. It potentially enables attackers to extract sensitive data from compromised databases, presenting a severe threat to website security.

Critical flaw found in WordPress plugin used on over 300,000 websites

A WordPress plugin used on over 300,000 websites has been found to contain vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to seize control. Security researchers at Wordfence found two critical flaws in the POST SMTP Mailer plugin. The first flaw made it possible for attackers to reset the plugin's authentication API key and view sensitive logs (including password reset emails) on the affected website. A malicious hacker exploiting the flaw could access the key after triggering a password reset.

Your WordPress Data Exposure Risks

43% of all websites are built in WordPress (W3Techs). Custom WordPress sites rely on plugins, themes, and other components determined by the website administrators. Because these extensible components are often created by third-parties, each custom addition is a potential attack vector that needs to be monitored and updated to maintain a secure website. Website security is a critical aspect of your cybersecurity posture.

Seamless Collaboration in Offshore WordPress Development Teams

The best way to achieve seamless collaboration in an offshore development team is by keeping the communication channels open at all times. This can be done by educating your team about project management, following a standard process for every project and making sure that everyone on the team understands their role.

What Are Image Upload Issues on WordPress and How to Solve Them

WordPress is renowned content management system has empowered countless users to design and run their websites seamlessly. However, even the best platforms can run into problems - one notable concern being issues related to image uploading on WordPress. Let's get into common reasons behind such problems and offer systematic solutions.

Over 2 million Websites Vulnerable to XSS Exploit (CVE-2023-30777) in WordPress Plugin

A zero-day vulnerability, denoted by the CVE identifier CVE-2023-30777, exposes a dangerous reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw. This high-severity vulnerability has been discovered within the WordPress plugin (Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and Advanced Custom Fields Pro). The CVE-2023-30777 exposes over 2 million installations to security risks, triggering widespread concern and anxiety among website owners and administrators.

Decade-old critical vulnerability in Jetpack patched on millions of WordPress websites

Jetpack, an extremely popular WordPress plugin that provides a variety of functions including security features for around five million websites, has received a critical security update following the discovery of a bug that has lurked unnoticed since 2012. Jetpack's maintainers, Automattic, announced on Tuesday that it had worked closely with the WordPress security team to push out an automatic patch for every version of Jetpack since 2.0.

Vulnerability Highlight: WordPress Error-Based Information & Exposure

By default, the WordPress administrative login page displays a helpful error message whenever an account user types in the wrong username/email address or password. Unfortunately, these same helpful error messages can also be abused to assist a threat actor to validate account usernames/email addresses and/or passwords. An incorrect username/password guess combination generates the following error message: “The username ‘name-entered’ is not registered on this site”.