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An attacker purchased 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa, planted backdoors that lay dormant for eight months, then activated ...

A popular brand of WordPress plugins was recently weaponized to download and spread malicious code. The new, potentially ...

A malicious actor found a struggling WordPress plugin company, bought it, and introduced malware to each product.

Dozens of WordPress plugins were taken offline after a suspected supply-chain attack involving a malicious backdoor added ...

WordPress.org announced that plugins and themes that are pirated versions of paid plugins and themes will be removed from the official WordPress repositories. The WordPress community debated if that ...

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...