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

Updates have been released for UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over 3 million installations, after a vulnerability was discovered by Jetpack security researcher Marc Montpas. Montpas said the ...

Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced update over the past day to fix a critical vulnerability in a plugin called UpdraftPlus. The mandatory patch came at the request of UpdraftPlus ...

The vulnerability affects the popular Updraft Plus WordPress plugin, installed in over 3 million websites. Updraft Plus comes in a free and paid version that allows users to upload backups to a user’s ...

WordPress has taken the rare step of force-updating the UpdraftPlus plugin on all sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability allowing website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which ...

An oversight in a WordPress plug-in exposes PII and authentication data to malicious insiders. The WordPress plug-in “UpdraftPlus” was patched on Wednesday to correct a vulnerability that left ...

In a digital world susceptible to malicious practices like hacking and ransomware, backups have become crucial. If you maintain a website, backing up can be the most vital step to protecting yourself ...

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 ...

Most of these plugins are easy to install, simple to use and flexible enough to back up your database, your folders/files, your posts/comments/tags or your entire site. Some of these plugins need to ...