WordPress Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Using Header & Footer Plugin

Get the latest SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social media news delivered daily. [Read More]( [Read More]( [SEJTODAY]( Brought to you by: [Read More]( Monday, May 1, 2023 [Read the Article]( News, WordPress [WordPress Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Using Header & Footer Plugin]( By Roger Montti The WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers + Custom Code Snippets WordPress plugin, with over a million installations, was discovered to have a vulnerability that could allow the attacker to delete files on the server. Warning of the vulnerability was posted on the United States Government National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The WPCode plugin (formerly known as Insert Headers and Footers by WPBeginner), is a popular plugin that allows WordPress publishers to add code snippets to the header and footer area. This is useful for publishers who need to add a Google Search Console site validation code, CSS code, structured data, even AdSense code, virtually anything that belongs in either the header of the footer of a website. The WPCode - Insert headers and Footers plugin before version 2.0.9 contains what has been identified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. [Keep Reading...]( Sponsored [🌱 Grow your SEO success with Moz & save up to 30%]( By Moz Get found by your target audience with Moz Pro’s all-in-one suite of SEO tools, and save up to 30% for a limited time! [Sign Up Now]( International Search [The Latest Search Engine Trends In Asia 2023]( By Motoko Hunt Over the past few years, the digital disruption in Asia has been significant through rapid ecommerce adoption, technology shifts, and demands of consumers, creating new opportunities for those businesses that were previously challenged by language and resources to target these markets directly. 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