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Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Slider Revolution 7 WordPress Plugin
Slider Revolution is installed on millions of WordPress sites worldwide. If yours is among them, a recently disclosed security flaw means any logged-in user on your site — a newsletter subscriber, a low-level team member, anyone with the most basic account — could upload a malicious file and gain complete control of your server. That
Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition
Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 58 security flaws across Windows and related software, six of which were already being used against real targets at the moment the patches dropped. That last detail is the one that matters. These are not theoretical risks being disclosed responsibly ahead of any known exploitation. Attackers were already inside
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Breeze Cache Plugin
A critical vulnerability in the Breeze Cache WordPress plugin was publicly disclosed on 22nd April 2026, and attackers are already moving against sites that have not been patched. The flaw affects an estimated 400,000 active installations. What makes this particularly serious is that no login credentials are required to exploit it. An attacker with no
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — April 2026
April 2026 brought a wave of serious security disclosures affecting some of the most widely-installed plugins in the WordPress ecosystem. If your site runs Elementor, Advanced Custom Fields, ManageWP Worker, or W3 Total Cache, you need to check your versions today. Several of these vulnerabilities require no login credentials to exploit, meaning any attacker who
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — January 2026
January 2026 brought a string of confirmed security vulnerabilities across some of the most widely installed WordPress plugins on the market. If your site is running any of the affected versions and has not yet been updated, you are not facing a theoretical risk — you are facing an active one. Automated attacks targeting known
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — February 2026
February 2026 brought a sharp reminder that the plugins sitting quietly inside millions of WordPress websites are not always as safe as they appear. Security researchers confirmed active vulnerabilities in several of the most widely installed plugins on the internet — tools that many business owners will recognise immediately, and that a significant number will
WordPress DDoS Protection: How to Keep Your Site Online
A DDoS attack — a Distributed Denial of Service attack — does exactly what the name suggests: it denies service to your real visitors by overwhelming your site with fake traffic until it collapses under the load. For a business owner, the consequences are immediate and measurable. Your site goes offline, customers cannot reach you,
The Security Risks of Using Nulled WordPress Plugins
If someone offered you a £200 note for £5, you would check it very carefully before accepting it. The same instinct should apply when a premium WordPress plugin — one that normally costs £80 a year — turns up on a random website for nothing. That is, in almost every case, exactly what a nulled
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — March 2026
March 2026 was a significant month for WordPress security. Several of the most widely installed plugins in the world — tools that millions of businesses rely on every day — were confirmed to contain security vulnerabilities. If your site was running Elementor, Yoast SEO, WPForms, or a handful of other common plugins and you had
Eurail says December data breach impacts 300,000 individuals
A well-resourced European rail pass company with a global customer base suffered a serious data breach on 26 December 2025. Breach notification letters did not reach affected individuals until 27 March 2026 — three months after the unauthorised actor had already walked out of the network with everything they came for. If that timeline feels
European Gym Giant Basic-Fit Data Breach Affects 1 Million Members
Hackers breached Basic-Fit’s systems and gained access to information belonging to approximately one million customers. Basic-Fit is not a small operation. It operates the largest gym chain in Europe, with more than 1,700 clubs across the continent. If a business of that scale, with the resources that implies, can suffer a breach exposing personal and
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Ninja Forms — File Upload Plugin
If your WordPress site is running the Ninja Forms File Upload plugin, you have an active security problem — not a theoretical one. On 6th April 2026, Wordfence publicly disclosed a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the plugin, and attackers are already exploiting it in the wild. This is not a case of researchers
Store API Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce 5.4+ – What You Need To Know
A serious security vulnerability has been discovered and patched in WooCommerce, affecting a significant number of store versions currently running across the web. If your store is running WooCommerce and you have not confirmed your version recently, this is the moment to do so. The flaw is now fixed, but understanding what happened — and
Adobe rolls out emergency fix for Acrobat, Reader zero-day flaw
If your business shares contracts, invoices, or proposals as PDF files — and most do — then the security of Adobe Acrobat Reader is a direct business concern, not a technical one. Adobe has issued an emergency fix for a serious vulnerability in Acrobat Reader that attackers had already been exploiting for months before the
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Kali Forms Plugin
If your website runs the Kali Forms plugin, you need to stop and read this. On 2nd March 2026, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was reported through Wordfence’s Bug Bounty Programme in Kali Forms, a plugin with more than 10,000 active installations. This is not a theoretical risk sitting in a researcher’s report. Attackers are
No business is ‘too small’ to be a target – Secure your organisation with Cyber Essentials
If you run a small business, there is a reasonable chance you have told yourself at some point that you are not an interesting target for cyber criminals. You are not a bank. You are not a hospital. You do not hold millions of customer records. The logic feels sound — but the data tells
CISA: New Langflow Flaw Actively Exploited to Hijack AI Workflows
If your business uses any AI-powered tools — whether for content generation, customer automation, data analysis, or workflow orchestration — the current situation with Langflow deserves your direct attention. CISA has added CVE-2026-33017, a critical code injection vulnerability in the Langflow AI framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, based on confirmed evidence of active
European Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud account hack
The European Commission is investigating a significant data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was compromised in a cyberattack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang. This is not a story about classified intelligence systems or military networks. It is a story about cloud-hosted web infrastructure — the same category of technology that most businesses, including
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