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PHP Warns of Two Critical Flaws and Sets a 14:00 UTC Patch, but the Leak, the Score and the Exploitation Reports Do Not Agree

PHP’s security team says a release fixing two critical flaws,...

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An Anonymous Comment Can Hand Duplicator a Payload That Fires at Migration Time, and Under a Third of Free Installs Run the Fix

Wordfence says CVE-2026-82814 lets an anonymous comment plant a...

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Attackers Holding UpdraftCentral Keys Are Installing Backdoor Plugins on WordPress Sites, and No UpdraftPlus Update Stops It

Nethemba and Patchstack report that an attacker holding valid...

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Some Rank Math PRO 3.0.123 Downloads Carried Malware for 11 Hours, and Updating Will Not Clean an Infected Site

Rank Math says PRO 3.0.123 copies downloaded in an 11-hour...

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Wordfence’s AI Finds a Ghostscript Flaw Rated 9.8 in the CVE and Moderate by Red Hat

Wordfence disclosed a Ghostscript heap overflow that Artifex...

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Cloudflare’s EmDash 1.0 Turns the WordPress Plugin Problem Into a Permissions Decision

EmDash 1.0 sandboxes plugins and builds its registry on signed...

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A Hidden Elementor Feature Let a Single Link Forge a WordPress Admin Account

A hidden, on-by-default Elementor feature disabled WordPress's...

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Wordfence’s Mu-Plugin Discovery Turns a Blockchain Into a Takedown-Resistant Command Post

Wordfence found a WordPress backdoor that rebuilds itself after...

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WordPress 7.1.2 Patches an Unauthenticated File-Inclusion Bug That Reaches Back to 2016

WordPress 7.1.2 closes an unauthenticated local file inclusion...

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Wordfence’s AI Testing Framework Found a Critical Flaw in the Library Behind Every iPhone Photo

An AI-assisted Wordfence research tool found a critical,...

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