WordPress plugins are helpful. But they can also slow a site down, invite hackers and even cause a Google penalty. These are my top five considerations when choosing a WordPress plugin. The plugin is ...
A very persistent malicious actor added a backdoor to a WordPress plugin called Display Widgets that installed backdoors on possibly 200,000 websites since June 21. The hacker used the open-source ...
A WordPress plugin installed on over 300,000 sites was recently modified to download and install a hidden backdoor. The WordPress team has intervened and removed this plugin from the official ...
Plugins are like accessories—and Coco Chanel said it best: “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.” Your website will work ...
All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing them ...
The developers of the ThemeGrill Demo Importer for WordPress have updated the plugin to remove a critical bug that gives admin privileges to unauthenticated users. In the process of getting logged in ...