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Discover how the Click2Shell vulnerability in WordPress lets hackers run PHP code and take over websites. Learn how to ...

Technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a new WordPress cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability dubbed 'Click2Shell' that affects the platform's Core component ...

The popular blogging site WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today for managing blogs, posting content, and reading other people's sites. If you're a regular user, you'll notice a new look ...

SC WordPress malware rebuilds its backdoor from files, the database, and shared memory; fewer than 20 wpForo exploit attempts ...

At this point, keeping a WordPress site secure is starting to feel less like website maintenance and more like playing Whac-A-Mole with a keyboard. Patch one plugin, another vulnerability appears.

WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under ...

Discover how a covert WordPress malware exploits the Essential plugin and hides Ethereum Ether to maintain undetected ...

The first WordPress theme I worked on looked fine in the browser, but that was exactly the problem: it looked finished before it was. A few weeks later, small changes exposed bigger issues: templates ...

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP 8 ...