Attackers have found a way to escalate the benign WordPress REST API flaw and use it to gain full access to a victim's server by installing a hidden backdoor.

A WordPress core maintainer said the company delayed disclosing the vulnerability, technically an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that existed in a REST API endpoint, to ...

The REST API is enabled by default on all sites using WordPress 4.7.0 or 4.7.1. If you are running these versions of the CMS, you are vulnerable to this attack. However, if you have automatic ...

Now we get a better sense of Krogsgard's excitement over WordPress' new direction and the range of projects he predicts WordPress will be used to support. "The REST API makes WordPress more ...

Two vulnerabilities have been found in the Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin for WordPress, which is installed on more than 1 million websites. They could allow arbitrary plugin ...

Researchers said on Friday that they found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin that gave attackers full control of websites that used the package, which is marketed to schools.