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Recent WordPress vulnerability used to deface 1.5 million pages |
February 11, 2017
Up to 20 attackers or groups of attackers are defacing WordPress websites that haven't yet applied a recent patch for a critical vulnerability.The vulnerability, located in the platform's REST API, allows unauthenticated attackers to modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site. The flaw was fixed in WordPress 4.7.2, released on Jan. 26, but the WordPress team did not publicly disclose the vulnerability's existence until a week later, to allow enough time for a large number of users to deploy the update.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3168846/security/recent-wordpress-vulnerability-used-to-deface-1-5-million-pages.html#tk.rss_all
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