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 ...

More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them. A malicious actor planted the backdoor ...

A hot potato: WordPress plugins can significantly expand the native capabilities of the popular content management system, but they can also become a double edged sword. When malicious code finds its ...

Malicious actor bought 31 WordPress plugins from Essential Plugin Updates injected backdoors, granting full site access Spam campaigns hidden from owners, C2 resolved via Ethereum smart contract A ...

Dozens of WordPress plugins have been compromised by an unknown actor who planted backdoors in popular add-ons after buying them for hundreds of thousands of dollars. WordPress developer and founder ...

Dozens of plug-ins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was discovered in them, used to push malicious code to any website that relied on ...

A 2026 WordPress supply-chain attack allegedly turned 30+ sold plugins into a dormant backdoor oper… This is what a real WordPress supply chain attack looks like in 2026. It was not a typo-squatted ...

WordPress's massive installed base isn't going anywhere, but many developers and AI agents are not opting for the product for new sites. Will they go for Cloudflare instead? Cloudflare on Wednesday ...

Cloudflare's EmDash is a promising preview of what a CMS of the future can be. Solves the plugin safety issue. It is currently an early developer Beta release, which means it generally should not be ...

The move lets IT administrators standardize and distribute agent behaviors across engineering teams, but OpenAI’s third-party marketplace is not yet open. OpenAI has introduced a plugin system for ...

WordPress has created three new plugins that make it easy to add OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude integration for the PHP AI Client SDK. The plugins enable text, image, function calling and ...