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Every WordPress SEO plugin promises better rankings. Few of them tell you what they add to your site to deliver it: a stylesheet you never asked for, a script that runs on every page load, and a comment announcing which plugin optimised the page. You install a tool to improve your SEO, and your pages…

A security breach affecting UpdraftPlus, a WordPress backup plugin installed on over 3 million websites, enabled attackers to install malicious plugins and create unauthorized administrator accounts. The attack exploited compromised UpdraftCentral connection keys, allowing attackers to take control of connected WordPress websites without needing a username or password.

Two major cybersecurity vulnerabilities have put websites across the internet at risk, including sites built with the popular content management systems WordPress and MediaWiki, as well as many e-commerce platforms.

Two security vulnerabilities were disclosed in the All in One SEO WordPress plugin, which has over two million active installations. Both vulnerabilities enable unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes or inject malicious scripts under specific conditions.

New allegations surfaced that the Rank Math WordPress plugin has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over WordPress sites. The access is triggered when a user is connected to a free Rank Math account and the user opens the plugin’s Help & Support section.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Check Point Research identified a cybercrime operation called StopAndProtect that has weaponized nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress sites to distribute malware, steal data, and deploy ransomware. The campaign targets Windows users via fake ClickFix CAPTCHA prompts that execute PowerShell commands, installing a toolkit including ransomware, credential stealers, network worms, and a…

Programmatic SEO sounds like a growth-hacker buzzword, but the idea is simple: instead of writing every page by hand, you build one strong template, connect it to a dataset, and generate a page for every row. A plumbing site doesn’t write “plumber in Austin” and “plumber in Denver” separately. One great template, 500 cities of…

We first noticed a ransomware family called StopAndProtect in the middle of May 2026. Further analysis of the infrastructure reveals that the infection chain starts with a ClickFix social-engineering technique, which prompts victims to execute a PowerShell command. This leads to two stages of additional downloaders and loaders written in .NET, followed by several main…

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WP Engine has made its Smart Search AI tool available to all WordPress websites, expanding a product previously limited to its own hosting customers.