What the WordPress 4.7.0 to 7.1.1 file inclusion bug teaches about patch windows

<p>File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) tools reported <strong>0 modifications</strong> and a <strong>100% clean status</strong>, yet over 100,000 WordPress sites were compromised

<p>Everyone's telling you the same thing right now: update WordPress. Which is, fine, yes, obviously but that's not enough. Patching closes the hole. What is someone is already In

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that

<p>Minute 0 - bot finds your unpatched plugin, drops a 39-byte backdoor disguised as .access.log.php, deletes the dropper. No trace.</p> <p>Minute 1 - hidden admin account named

WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script