Hackers are conducting widespread exploitation of a critical WooCommerce Payments plugin to gain the privileges of any users, including administrators, on vulnerable WordPress installation.

A WordPress design flaw could grant an attacker remote code execution, leading to a privilege escalation in WooCommerce and other WordPress plugins, according to RIPS Technologies. In a 6 November ...

Attackers have been exploiting a critical flaw in the WordPress WooCommerce Payments plug-in in a spate of attacks over the last few days that peaked at 1.3 million attempts against 157,000 sites on ...

Security researchers have recorded over one million attempts to compromise a popular WordPress plugin over the past few days. Wordfence said the attacks began on July 14 and continued over the weekend ...