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Wordfence has published its 2020 WordPress…

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Dan Knauss

Wordfence has published its 2020 WordPress Threat Report. 😨 Last year Wordfence blocked "90 billion malicious login attempts from over 57 million unique IP addresses" and "4.3 billion attempts to exploit vulnerabilities from over 9.7 million unique IP addresses." 🛡️

Wordfence has disclosed two vulnerabilities in…

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Dan Knauss

Wordfence has disclosed two vulnerabilities in Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle, a WordPress plugin used by over 400,000 sites. 🦊 Also, if you are using the e-signature plugin, apparently used by some customers on Pagely, you may want to upgrade as…

Nice post here on Reddit from…

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Dan Knauss

Nice post here on Reddit from Mark Maunder the founder and CEO of Wordfence as he replies to the question of how people come up with their startup ideas: "So my site was hacked. I used to be a hacker…

Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger…

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Dan Knauss
Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger Montii reporting for SEJ looks at an Authenticated Stored XSS vulnerability in the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. The vulnerability was discovered by Wordfence and fixed through their collaboration with WPBakery in a recent update.…

If you or someone you know…

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Dan Knauss

If you or someone you know is using the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin, take note that Wordfence discovered a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the plugin, which appears to be installed on over 100,000 sites. To be clear,…

Wordfence has launched Fast or Slow,…

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Dan Knauss

Wordfence has launched Fast or Slow, which was born from the idea "to develop a way to measure real-world performance from around the world, and an easy way to read and interpret the results." 💨 This free online service provides…

A critical security update was recently…

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Brian Krogsgard
A critical security update was recently issued for Duplicator that Wordfence reported as affecting over a million WordPress sites. 🔓 Duplicator users should update to version 1.3.28 as soon as possible.

If you use the Demo Importer…

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If you use the Demo Importer or a commercial theme from ThemeGrill, you should be aware of a security issue that can potentially let attackers wipe out your sites! There is an update available to address this exploit. 😲 Last…

It’s certainly been a whirlwind of…

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Brian Krogsgard

It's certainly been a whirlwind of news this week involving Pipdig, a UK-based theme and plugin shop, and one of their plugins: Pipdig Power Pack, also known as P3. A lot of the controversy can be traced back to this blog…

Wordfence is getting into the “forensic”…

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Brian Krogsgard
Wordfence is getting into the "forensic" and malware cleaning business for WordPress sites. The service is a pretty logical extension of the plugin, and they're charging $179 to clean sites, or $120 for Wordfence Pro customers.

The most popular WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.
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