BuddyPress WordPress Vulnerability May Impact Up To 100,000 Sites

A newly disclosed security vulnerability waffects the BuddyPress plugin, a WordPress plugin installed in over 100,000 websites. The vulnerability, given a threat level rating of 7.3 (high), enables ...
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WordPress Patches Serious Shortcodes Core Engine Vulnerability

WordPress upgraded to 4.3.1, patching a pair of vulnerabilities in the core engine, including a cross-site scripting issue enabled by a vulnerability in shortcodes. WordPress core engine security ...
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WordPress Vulnerability In Shortcodes Ultimate Impacts 700,000 Sites

The United States government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin, warning that it was discovered to contain a Cross Site Request ...
Bates College

Switching from Shortcodes to Blocks, part 1

Lately we’ve been putting a lot of effort into increasing the adoption rate of the WordPress block editor on campus. One of the larger hurdles in that process is how many custom shortcodes we have in ...