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Sead Fadilpašić

This popular WordPress site builder has a serious security issue — and hackers are already taking advantage

Laptop computer displaying logo of WordPress, a free and open-source content management system (CMS).

A popular WordPress theme with tens of thousands of users carries a high severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to run malicious PHP code. The patch for the flaw has already been made available, and hackers have started targeting vulnerable sites to disable security plugins.

A security researcher alias “snicco” recently found a vulnerability in the Brick Builder Theme, a commercial website builder with some 25,000 active installations, the publication states.

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