Wordpress Plugin Critical Security Vulnerability - April 27 2013

Started by Jason, April 27, 2013, 08:21:00 AM

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Jason

If you use WordPress for your website and use either (or both) of the following two plugins, please login to your WordPress admin area immediately and upgrade them.  Updating plugins is typically extremely easy. 

- W3 Total Cache plug-in
- WP Super Cache plug-in

It's also a good idea to check that you're running the latest version of WordPress.  WordPress tends to release updates every several weeks and it's important to stay on top of them.  Given the popularity of WordPress globally, I've seen an increase in site compromises due to outdated WordPress, WordPress Plug-ins and/or WordPress Themes.

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We have become aware of a critical security vulnerability in very
commonly used plug-ins for the popular Wordpress blogging platform that
present a risk to our customers. All customers using Wordpress with
either the W3 Total Cache plug-in or the WP Super Cache plug-in are
encouraged to update their plug-ins as soon as possible. This upgrade
is necessary even if the plug-in is installed but not currently active.

Wordpress plug-ins can be easily updated from within the Wordpress
admin interface's plug-in section.

We posted back in December that the W3 Total Cache plugin had known issues:

http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=1871.0

If you have any questions or need help, please feel free to post here or open a ticket in your Client Area.

Thank you!
-Jason

Jason

A notification of this post has been sent to all active Charlottezweb clients this morning.

Thanks,
Jason