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WordPress security news and issues.

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…

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Dan Knauss
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities β€” and how to prevent them. πŸ”’

Tony Perez’s approach to WordPress security…

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Dan Knauss
Tony Perez's approach to WordPress security is not about complex configurations but three key tenets. These include 1) limiting access to the server stack to known and trusted sources, 2) limiting file access and knowing what is modified and introduced,…

The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also…

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Dan Knauss
The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also known as m0ze) who is a long-time contributor to the WPScan vulnerability database. Vlad shares thoughts on the state of WordPress security today: β€œBy itself, the WordPress engine is quite safe… but WordPress CMS…

This week WP Engine announced the…

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Dan Knauss
This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…

Very happy to see the release…

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Dan Knauss
Very happy to see the release WP-CLI v2.5.0 knowing it was quite the effort. Kudos to the team. This version includes security patches, PHP 8 support, improved MySQL/MariaDB support, new commands for managing automatic updates and creating MO files, and…
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