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Vulnerability found in PageLayer WordPress Plugin affecting more than 200,000 websites

Threat Alerts / May 28, 2020
The vulnerability was discovered by the Wordfence team on April 30 in PageLayer WordPress plugin which allowed any authenticated user with subscriber-level and above permissions the ability to update and modify posts with malicious content, amongst many other things. The plugin is installed on more than 200,000 websites.

The vulnerability was discovered by the Wordfence team on April 30 in PageLayer WordPress plugin which allowed any authenticated user with subscriber-level and above permissions the ability to update and modify posts with malicious content, amongst many other things. The plugin is installed on more than 200,000 websites.

You can read a very detailed report by the Wordfence team on their blog.

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