Security Issue Causing Vulnerability to Content Injection [...]


Security Issue Causing Vulnerability to Content Injection Attacks Fixed by WordPress


📅 - Sites using WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 were vulnerable to content injection attacks before WordPress rolled out 4.7.2. Mark-Alexandre Montpas, a Sucuri security researcher let the WordPress team know of the vulnerability in January.

The issue was a big deal for WordPress users that could have had any content on their pages or posts changed. Hackers could have also added in shortcodes and exploited other vulnerabilities by infecting the SEO of a site or making it seem like spam.

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