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Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease

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The internet is rife with small annoyances, which often lead to breakthroughs in user experience. For example, needing to hit “refresh” or “next page” led to infinite scroll, which is now baked into our media consumption habits.  Today, we’re excited Continue reading Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease→

Five WordPress Security Plugins Prevented Exploitation of Serious Vulnerability in Another Security Plugin

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One of the things that should have long ago raised a lot of alarm about the state of the WordPress security industry is how often security plugins are found to contain vulnerabilities. Instead, it has been treated as evidence that Continue reading Five WordPress Security Plugins Prevented Exploitation of Serious Vulnerability in Another Security Plugin→

How a WordPress Firewall Plugin Stops Exploitation of Zero-Day That Automattic’s Jetpack Didn’t

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When it comes to protecting WordPress websites from being hacked through vulnerabilities in plugins, the solution is often simply keeping plugins up to date. But that doesn’t work when a hacker finds a vulnerability and starts exploiting it, otherwise known Continue reading How a WordPress Firewall Plugin Stops Exploitation of Zero-Day That Automattic’s Jetpack Didn’t→

NinjaFirewall and Plugin Vulnerabilities Firewall Are Only WordPress Security Plugins That Protected Against Recent Zero Day

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Among the common, but inaccurate, security advice you will hear is that WordPress won’t get hacked if you take basic security measures, including keeping plugins up to date. While doing the basics is really important, the reality is that keeping Continue reading NinjaFirewall and Plugin Vulnerabilities Firewall Are Only WordPress Security Plugins That Protected Against Recent Zero Day→

Twitter Suspends WordPress.com’s Access to Twitter API, Breaking Jetpack Social Sharing

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Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without notice yesterday. Representatives at WordPress.com do not know why their access is currently blocked but are working to regain it. Our access to the Twitter API is currently blocked. As a Continue reading Twitter Suspends WordPress.com’s Access to Twitter API, Breaking Jetpack Social Sharing→

Only 25% of WordPress Security Plugins Protected Against Widely Exploited Plugin Vulnerability

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In late January, an unfixed vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with 40,000+ installs started to receive widespread exploitation attempts and many websites were hacked. The hacking was in part caused by multiple WordPress security providers, including Wordfence, WPScan, and Patchstack, Continue reading Only 25% of WordPress Security Plugins Protected Against Widely Exploited Plugin Vulnerability→

Here Are the 4 WordPress Security Plugins That Protected Against a Vulnerability Wordfence Failed to Protect Against Despite Having Discovered It

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Last week, Wordfence disclosed the details of an authenticated persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability they had found in a popular WordPress plugin with 3+ million installs (as well as something else that wasn’t really a vulnerability). There were some things Continue reading Here Are the 4 WordPress Security Plugins That Protected Against a Vulnerability Wordfence Failed to Protect Against Despite Having Discovered It→

WordPress Security Plugins Don’t Prevent Disclosure of One-Time Password Through Exploited Plugin Vulnerability

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A month ago, we saw a hacker looking to exploit a vulnerability that had recently been fixed in the WordPress plugin User Verification. That vulnerability discovered by Lana Codes involved the plugin’s functionality to email a one-time password for logging Continue reading WordPress Security Plugins Don’t Prevent Disclosure of One-Time Password Through Exploited Plugin Vulnerability→