ZDNet

WordPress to add auto-update feature for themes and plugins

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, ...
Bleeping Computer

WordPress Update Process Puts a Quarter of All Sites on the Internet at Risk

Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer at Paragon Initiative Enterprises, is warning about a series of security issues that affect the update mechanism used by the WordPress CMS. The developer ...
Searchenginejournal.com

WordPress Proposes Plan for 61% of WP Sites Using Outdated PHP

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues. Except ...
TechRadar

Update WordPress now to fix this significant security flaw

WordPress has released a new version - 6.4.2, that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability. Used in pair with another flaw, hackers could run arbitrary PHP code on a WordPress website, and as ...