WordPress 5.2.4 is now available, it’s a short-cycle security release. The next major release will be version 5.3. This security release fixes six security issues. WordPress versions 5.2.3 and earlier are affected by these security bugs, which are fixed in version 5.2.4. There are also security updates to WordPress 5.1 and earlier. List of Security …
WordPress 5.2.3 has now been released. This is a security and maintenance release features 29 fixes and enhancements and adds several security fixes. These bugs affect WordPress versions 5.2.2 and earlier; version 5.2.3 fixes them, so we recommend all WordPress-users to upgrade. If you haven’t yet updated to 5.2 yet, there are also updated versions …
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What is XML-RPC? According to Wikipedia, XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. WordPress utilizes this XML-RPC that is used to exchange information between computer systems over a network. In short, it is a system that allows you to post on your WordPress blog using popular weblog clients like Windows Live …
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When it comes to complex password cracking, hashcat is the tool which comes into role as it is the well-known password cracking tool freely available on the internet. The passwords can be any form or hashes like SHA, MD5, WHIRLPOOL etc. Hashes does not allow a user to decrypt data with a specific key as …
Since a few weeks we offer an API so you can get notified about new found vulnerabilities on your WordPress website. The first part of our API are outgoing JSON webhooks. Using webhooks you can integrate against other third party services like Slack and Zapier. The hooks is formatted as JSON, example: { “email”: “[email protected]”, …
Effective from 2019-05-01 our new name will be WPSec. The new name is short and reduces confusion with other projects. The new logo can be found below:
Building on the robust infrastructure of WordPress 5.1, another release is in the offing at the end of this month. Perhaps the most crucial thing to note with the new update – WordPress 5.2 – is that all users would have to upgrade their version of PHP to PHP 5.6.20. Following the release of …
It has been reported by W3Techs that about one-third of the top ten million sites on the web is powered by WordPress. The WordPress market share has experienced tremendous steady growth in the last few years. There has been an increase from 29.9% to 33.4% within a year. That is a great improvement. The state …
WordPress 5.1.1 is now available for automatic upgrade or download. This new WordPress version is a security and maintenance release. The release introduces 10 fixes and enhancements, including changes designed to help hosts prepare users for the minimum PHP version bump coming in WordPress 5.2 (read more here). The release also includes security fixes that …
