The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins, ...

Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said. The vulnerability ...

Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term ...

WordPress maintenance headaches are now a thing of the past thanks to new automatic updates Kinsta, a managed hosting provider for WordPress powered by Google Cloud Platform, is announcing a new ...

Hackers are using a critical vulnerability in the WP Automatic, a plugin used by more than 30,000 websites in WordPress. The vulnerability is being exploited to create user accounts with ...

A critical vulnerability recently discovered in a popular WordPress plugin, is being actively abused in the wild, researchers have said, with hackers potentially able to use the flaw to fully take ...

Automatic update is a feature that allows plugins to update automatically without any action from the publisher. The common expectation is that this is something that a publisher opts into it. Some ...

In a nutshell: Many WordPress plugins are designed to enhance the content management system's ability to quickly and easily share content from almost anywhere on the internet. But one popular ...

In an effort to prevent WordPress sites from being hacked, the WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update feature to themes and plugins. Many site owners often install themes and ...