A popular WordPress plugin for privacy compliance with over 800,000 installations recently patched a stored XSS vulnerability that could allow an attacker to upload malicious scripts for launching ...

“Through the open source version of WordPress, sites can use more than 55,000 plug-ins created by other companies and developers to provide features that a site needs, like forms for soliciting people ...

Hackers have exploited --and are currently continuing to exploit-- a now-patched zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to install backdoors and take over sites. The vulnerability ...

Critical security issues caused by improper access controls in a WordPress plugin designed for GDPR cookie compliance have been resolved, but hundreds of thousands of websites may still be vulnerable ...

Researchers are urging users of the GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress plugin to update as soon as possible. A popular WordPress plugin, which helps make websites compliant with the General Data Protection ...

In this month's open source news roundup, WordPress, Liferay, Magnolia and Joomla have some new contributions worth talking about. WordPress 4.9.6 is now available, bringing a whole bunch of ...

Critical bugs found in the WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin used by over 700,000 websites allow potential attackers to delete and change content and inject malicious JavaScript code due to ...

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A WARNING has been issued against WordPress users to update a plugin that had introduced a critical security flaw. The General Data Protection (GDPR) compliance plugin allowed users to easily ensure ...