WordPress developers have introduced new updates that claim to repair a website.
This new update is pushed out as automatic for all software users when fixing some vulnerable security issues.
WordPress version 5.8.3 is said to patch four vulnerabilities.
WordPress offers users web stores with several plugins and some of them come with evil vulnerabilities.
This platform is often targeted by imitators and other cyber criminals.
Because maybe the most popular website builder.
Developers also suggest webmasters and other administrators to verify the version being run by their site.
Verification is needed to ensure that you cannot be targeted.
TechRadar reports that some problems are very serious so if they are exploited, the attacker can take control of the entire site along with other small problems that need admin access to be misused.
The previous report suggested that a certain WordPress plugin named SEO “All in One” was not patched at that time.
This causes more than 800,000 WordPress websites remain vulnerable to takeover vulnerabilities.
There are other reports about other vulnerabilities in several starter templates including – Elementor, Gutenberg, and Templates Beaver Builder plugins.
This makes more than millions of risk sites because this vulnerability allows users to control the contributor to instill malicious JavaScript and completely overwrite any page on the site.
In other cases, there are plugins that also have serious defects.
It is “e-mail preview for WooCommerce plugins ” which can allow attackers to take over the site if they are not patched.
This report adds that this plugin is used by more than 20,000 sites.
WordPress new updates improve the website and eliminate some shortcomings of security
