Security vulnerabilities with critical risk ratings are present in widespread WordPress plugins. One is already being attacked.

A critical WordPress Modular DS plugin flaw (CVE-2026-23550) allows unauthenticated attackers to gain admin access; patched ...

In its write-up, Patchstack said the flaw is already being exploited in the wild, and that first attacks were detected on ...

A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be ...

WordPress announced a major clampdown to protect its theme and plugin ecosystem from password insecurity. These improvements follow a flurry of attacks in June that compromised multiple plugins at the ...

Security researchers confirmed in-the-wild exploitations of the mx-severity flaw, allowing unauthenticated actors gain full ...

MITRE loses its lead as the top reporter of vulnerabilities, while new organizations pump out CVEs and reported bugs in ...

Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of ...

WordPress released a security update to fix sixteen vulnerabilities, recommending that sites be updated immediately. The security notice did not offer a description of the severity of the ...