More than 30 WordPress plugins were shut down after a supply-chain backdoor compromised thousands of sites through the Essential Plugin portfolio. A web developer discovered dozens of malicious ...

More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them. A malicious actor planted the backdoor ...

A hot potato: WordPress plugins can significantly expand the native capabilities of the popular content management system, but they can also become a double edged sword. When malicious code finds its ...

An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve ...

Malicious actor bought 31 WordPress plugins from Essential Plugin Updates injected backdoors, granting full site access Spam campaigns hidden from owners, C2 resolved via Ethereum smart contract A ...

Dozens of plug-ins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was discovered in them, used to push malicious code to any website that relied on ...

A critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Ninja Forms – File Upload Plugin has been identified, exposing thousands of WordPress sites to potential compromise. The issue affects plugin versions ...

A security flaw in the Ally WordPress plugin used on more than 400,000 sites could allow attackers to extract sensitive data without logging in. A vulnerability in a widely used WordPress ...

Joost De Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, announced that he is stepping away from FAIR, a Linux Foundation project for creating an independent repository of themes and plugins. The FAIR project was ...

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Drupal site governance. Site owners and agencies can streamline compliance, reducing content risk. Crownpeak released new open-source modules for its FirstSpirit product suite that bring its Digital ...