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Patch this WordPress plugin now, thousands of users warned – Techradar Australia
Maximum severity WordPress plugin bug places tens of thousands of websites at risk
A critical vulnerability has been identified in a WordPress plugin installed across more than 80,000 websites.
Discovered by researchers at security firm Wordfence, the bug is present in WordPress plugin wpDiscuz (versions 7.0.0 to 7.0.4), used by administrators to integrate a comments section into their websites.
The bug could reportedly allow hackers to remotely execute code on a vulnerable websites servers, take control of the hosting account and inject malicious code into other sites mana…
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