This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...

Researchers found three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the 'PHP Everywhere' plugin for WordPress, used by over 30,000 websites worldwide. PHP Everywhere is a plugin that ...

Automattic, the developer of WordPress, has announced that it will resume contributing to the WordPress project. When Automattic released WordPress 6.8 in April 2025, they stated that 'this will be ...

The issue impacts several content management systems, including Typo3 and WordPress, as well as widely-used PDF generation library TCPDF. Researchers have created a proof-of-concept exploit that would ...

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP 8 ...

The WordPress open-source publishing and content management system is written in the PHP programming language. You can easily create and configure websites for your small business using WordPress, but ...