WordPress gives away free software that helps people create rich, compelling blogs. At the heart of every WordPress blog lies an important database. This database is critical because it contains all ...

More than 60 million people and businesses use WordPress to run their websites or blogs, according to founder Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is a free, open-source blogging platform and content-management ...

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform ...

Researcher Ryan Dewhurst released the WPScan Vulnerability Database, a database housing security vulnerabilities in WordPress core code, plug-ins and themes. It’s available for pen-testers, WordPress ...

In last week’s post, I wrote about a useful plugin for backing up your WordPress site. Backups are vitally important, especially for those of us who use our sites for professional purposes (for some ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A popular WordPress vulnerability has been found carrying a critical vulnerability which allowed ...

A misconfigured cloud database exposed over 800 million records linked to WordPress users before its owner was notified, according to Website Planet. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler explained that ...

An attack over the weekend unsuccessfully targeted 1.3 million WordPress websites, in attempts to download their configuration files and harvest database credentials. Attackers were spotted targeting ...