Vibe coding WordPress plugins with AI can raise concerns about whether a plugin follows best practices for compatibility and security. WordPress.org’s Plugin Check Plugin offers a solution for those ...

Attackers have hijacked the code behind several popular WordPress plugins to plant hidden backdoors and rogue administrator ...

WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are known to be ...

Thousands of WordPress sites running the Kali Forms plugin are exposed to attackers who can execute arbitrary code on web ...

Tampered JavaScript in three Awesome Motive plugins exposed WordPress sites to rogue admin accounts and hidden backdoors.

More than 30 WordPress plugins were shut down after a supply-chain backdoor compromised thousands of sites through the Essential Plugin portfolio. A web developer discovered dozens of malicious ...

WordPress announced the Protect The Shire initiative to make all plugins and themes in its repositories and directories ...

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...