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20,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Bit File Manager WordPress Plugin

📢 Did you know Wordfence runs a Bug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? Through October 14th, researchers can earn up to $31,200, for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability, submit the details directly to us, and we handle all the rest.  …Read More

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WordPress XSSplorer Challenge: An Expanded Scope for All Researchers in the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program

From now through October 7th, 2024, we are expanding the scope of our Bug Bounty Program to include all Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities—both Reflected and Stored—in any WordPress plugin or theme with at least 1,000 active installations for all researchers. This temporary scope expansion applies to all researchers, regardless of their current tier, providing an …Read More

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How to Manage Your Most Critical WordPress Maintenance Tasks

As a website owner, staying on top of critical WordPress maintenance tasks is important. But who has time to constantly update plugins, fix security vulnerabilities, and optimize your website’s database? Managing all of these important tasks, especially when maintaining more than one website, is time-consuming. In this post, we’ll outline all the maintenance tasks you …

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Automattic Wants to Migrate 500+ Million Tumblr Blogs to WordPress

If you like ambitious projects, I think this news tidbit will be right up your alley. In late August, Matt Mullenweg and Automattic announced plans to migrate all of the existing Tumblr websites to WordPress. Given that Tumblr hosts more than half a billion blogs (yes – that’s a “B”), I think this might just be one of the largest migration projects ever undertaken.