Security researcher at Automattic discovered a vulnerability affecting popular WordPress backup plugin, UpdraftPlus. The vulnerability allowed hackers to download user names and hashed passwords.

A popular WordPress backup plugin installed in over 200,000 websites recently patched a high severity vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack. Wordfence assigned a CVSS severity ...

WordPress websites have databases which contain all of the posts, comments and links. Back up the database to prevent data loss. Databases can be backed up manually or automatically. The WordPress ...

A critical severity vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with more than 90,000 installs can let attackers gain remote code execution to fully compromise vulnerable websites. Known as Backup Migration, ...

Hackers have attempted to exploit a zero–day flaw in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy five million times, sometimes successfully. The news comes from WordPress security–focused company Wordfence, ...

A backup plugin is essential to keeping data safe in case of cyberattack or server outage, so we've compiled best backup plugins as rated by Wordpress users. WordPress is a capable, flexible, and ...

Why it matters: WordPress plugin developer, iThemes, alerted users to a vulnerability related to their BackupBuddy extension earlier this week. The security hole leaves plugin users susceptible to ...

It's an interesting paradox. WordPress powers 35 percent of all websites on the Internet, in part because it's so flexible and modular. It has a robust library of more than 50,000 plugins, each adding ...