When the website of a very popular plug-in used in an amazingly popular Web content management system (CMS) is hacked, this makes for big security news — even if, according to the plug-in’s publisher, there’s nothing to worry about. WordPress is used as the content platform for around 75,000,000 websites. According to some observers, WordPress […]
Joomla 3.8 brings more than 300 improvements to the popular content management system (CMS) and patches two vulnerabilities, including one that can be exploited to obtain administrator credentials. Researchers at RIPS Technologies discovered that Joomla versions between 1.5 and 3.7.5 are affected by a potentially serious vulnerability when using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication. […]
Over a third of all websites on the Internet are powered by one of these four key open source platforms: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Magento. This makes the life of attackers looking to compromise websites much easier, as they can simply concentrate on exploiting vulnerabilities in one of them, or one of the popular plugins […]
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