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Episode 68: More Plugin Vulnerabilities and Active Attack Campaigns

This week, we review numerous plugin vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins and the attacks that are targeting them. We also review the Duplicator vulnerability affecting over 1 million sites, and Chloe Chamberland’s discovery of multiple vulnerabilities in the Pricing Table by Supsystic plugin. Some WordPress-focused companies, Elementor and Strattic, receive venture funding. We also ask …Read More

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How to Avoid Getting Scammed as a New Freelancer

Every new freelancer needs to know how to avoid getting scammed when looking for work on online platforms. Starting a career as a freelancer can be a positive life-changing move. But sometimes when you start out as a freelancer you take on jobs that might not be the best choice. On some occasions, that job …

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Episode 67: Avoiding Common Vulnerabilities When Developing WordPress Plugins

Almost every week, a new vulnerability is discovered in a popular WordPress plugin or theme, leaving developers scrambling to fix it before it’s widely exploited. Surprisingly, almost all critical vulnerabilities boil down to a few common mistakes. In this talk from WordCamp Phoenix, Ramuel Gall reviews these common errors and provides advice on creating secure …Read More

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9 Nonprofit and Charity Divi Layout Packs

Divi is a great choice for building websites for nonprofit and charity organizations. Everything you need is built-in to design a site to show your causes, ask for volunteers, accept donations, and show your events. Fortunately, you don’t have to design the site from scratch. There are lots of Divi layouts available to get you …

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What is Rel=”Noopener” and How Do You Use It with WordPress?

When building and maintaining websites, we always have to take into consideration the security of the sites under our care. Blogs especially need an extra level of care considering the number of outlinks they usually have. Taking care of outlinks involves different tasks in order to always make sure they are optimizied. One of the …

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Site Takeover Campaign Exploits Multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Early yesterday, the Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin received a critical update to patch a zero-day vulnerability which allowed attackers to modify the plugin’s settings. As our Threat Intelligence team researched the scope of this attack campaign, we discovered three additional zero-day vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins that are being exploited as a part of this …Read More

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How to Create a Breakaway Image Transition with Divi’s Scroll Effects

Divi’s Scroll Effects allow us to create exceptional transition animations that can wow visitors with an eye-catching design. Images, in particular, can showcase the power of these scroll effects in surprising ways. In this tutorial, we are going to explain step-by-step how to create a breakaway image transition with Divi’s scroll effects. This effect was …

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Best WPML-Compatible Page Builder Plugins in 2020

Everyone loves page builders because they allow designing great-looking sites quickly and easily. And when building a multilingual site, you need to make sure that you can translate everything in your page builder’s design. In this article, we compare the most popular page builders and review their compatibility with WPML. What to look for in …

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How to Use the 5-by-5 Rule to Enhance Your Career

If your social media feed tends to pick up a lot of inspirational quotes and motivational creeds, you may have seen the 5-by-5 rule before: “If it won’t matter in five years, don’t spend five minutes worrying about it.” While it’s usually meant to apply to your personal life, it’s also sound professional advice. On …

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How to Create an Envelope Animation with Divi’s Scroll Effects

Every time a new Divi feature comes out, we try to share some cool and useful tutorials that’ll help you think outside the box and get creative with Divi. Today’s tutorial does exactly that. We’ll show you how you can create a responsive envelope animation with Divi’s scroll effects. This is a great way to …

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WordPress 5.4 Beta 3

WordPress 5.4 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.4 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose “bleeding edge nightlies” …

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Multiple Vulnerabilities Patched in Pricing Table by Supsystic Plugin

On January 17th, our Threat Intelligence Team discovered several vulnerabilities in Pricing Table by Supsystic, a WordPress plugin installed on over 40,000 sites. These flaws allowed an unauthenticated user to execute several AJAX actions due to an insecure permissions weakness. Attackers were also able to inject malicious Javascript due to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, …Read More

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Blogging Trends for 2020 You Should Know About

When looking at blogging trends for upcoming years, it’s more about seeing what things will continue to be important rather than adopting completely new things. Blogging trends are more about knowing what works and improving upon those things. In this article, we’ll look at the most important blogging trends you should know about in 2020. …

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On MAGA Caps and WordCamps

Within WordPress circles, I don’t talk much about politics. I was raised to believe that politics and religion are not … Continue reading On MAGA Caps and WordCamps →

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Get a FREE Car Detailing Layout Pack for Divi

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, Kenny and his team have created a brand new Car Detailing Layout Pack we think you …

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Multiple Attack Campaigns Targeting Recent Plugin Vulnerabilities

As part of our ongoing research efforts, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team continually monitors our network for noteworthy threats facing WordPress. Recently, we’ve been tracking malicious activity targeting several vulnerabilities recently patched in popular plugins. In today’s post, we’ll provide details of our research into two active campaigns. We’ll also share some common indicators of …Read More