In recent months, there has been an up tick in malicious "fake" plugins using a variety of methods to infect and control websites. Popular plugins are being faked by malicious actors to provide a facade of a plugin which is designed to hack your website or use your online resources to mine crypto currency. Once these attackers have penetrated your ...
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Various security fixes are included in the 5.2.4 update to WordPress. It was possible for unauthenticated posts to seen when they should not be publicly visible. Fix for way to "poison" the cache of JSON requests using GET. Static query has been removed. Fixes bugs introduced in previous WordPress versions.
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New WordPress 5.3 introduces a new filter ( apply_filters('big_image_size_threshold ', sizeInPx ) to set the maximum width or height of media uploads. Many WordPress users rely on image resizing tools like EWWW Image Optimizer, and Smush to resize their images to serve scaled images for varying display sizes and densities.
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Soon Google Chrome will be blocking pages that serve mixed content in an effort to increase online browsing security by tightening restrictions on content encryption. Mixed content is essentially when a webpage serves content to uses using both encrypted and unencrypted data to your browser. Unencrypted data can lead to breaches through ...
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