An attacker purchased 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa, planted backdoors that lay dormant for eight months, then activated ...

A popular brand of WordPress plugins was recently weaponized to download and spread malicious code. The new, potentially ...

The move likely won’t have direct impact on most enterprise users, but indirect impact — which could be just as bad — is a definite possibility. Editor’s note: On Jan. 3, 2025, WordPress.org staff ...

WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. The block prevented several sites from updating their plug-ins and themes ...

CEO Marenweg and Mike Little developed WordPress as a fork of b2/cafelog. After dropping out of college in 2004, CEO Marenweg continued developing WordPress and founded Automattic in December 2005. As ...

Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of ...

WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This ...

Finding the right website builder for your business is important. You want to build professional-looking pages that will share your brand and vision with your customers, while also enjoying SEO, ...

A California district court judge on Tuesday ruled that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg must restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, a theme and plug-in repository owned by Mullenweg. Judge ...