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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/one-attacker-rules-them-all

One Attacker Outpaces All Others Starting April 28th, we saw a 30 times increase in cross site scripting attack volume, originating from a single attacker, and targeting over a million WordPress sites. We published research detailing the threat actor and attack volume increase on May 5th. By the time we published, the attack volume...

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/nearly-a-million-wp-sites-targeted-in-large-scale-attacks/

Nearly a Million WP Sites Targeted in Large-Scale Attacks Our Threat Intelligence Team has been tracking a sudden uptick in attacks targeting Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) vulnerabilities that began on April 28, 2020 and increased over the next few days to approximately 30 times the normal volume we see in our attack data. The majority of these attacks appear....

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/01/using-commercial-plugins-responsibly/

A Tale of Two Vulnerabilities: Using Commercial Plugins Responsibly As the most popular CMS on the market, one of the major draws of WordPress is a rich ecosystem of plugins made available by the community. The WordPress.org plugin repository makes the process of installing and updating plugins a seamless experience in the dashboard of a site, and a team of voluntee...

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