WordPress is a popular and powerful CMS (content management system) platform. Its popularity can bring unwanted attention in the form of malicious traffic specially targeted at a WordPress site. There ...

Because it was an outdated WordPress version (on an abandoned domain), even the xml-rpc may have been vulnerable to an attack. The xml-rpc in the most recent WordPress version, however, concerns me as ...

My mentor taught me about various WordPress-related vulnerabilities. That knowledge was the foundation. But then I started exploring deeper. Asking "what else can this do?" That's when I found it. A ...

The XML-RPC protocol was originally designed to simplify cross-platform communication between applications. However, recent security research has revealed that it can be exploited for IP disclosure ...

On Monday, Daniel Cid, the CTO of Sucuri, said in a blog post that his company recently mitigated a DDoS attack that leveraged more than 162,000 legitimate WordPress installations. The attack was ...

A botnet consisting of over 20,000 WordPress sites is being used to attack and infect other WordPress sites. Once compromised, these new sites are added to the botnet so that they too can be used to ...

WordPress security is a crucial topic to consider for every website owner. According to PatchStach, a cybersecurity company focused on the WordPress environment, “Google quarantines around 10,000 ...