The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin for personalized emails is vulnerable to code injection and phishing due to XSS. More than 20,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to malicious code injection, phishing ...

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 ...

Attackers have found a way to escalate the benign WordPress REST API flaw and use it to gain full access to a victim's server by installing a hidden backdoor. On January 26, the WordPress team ...

WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are known to be ...

When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website, they have long been greeted by a default, introductory post simply titled "Hello world!" But, now it's time for WordPress to say a farewell.

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 ...