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Sead Fadilpašić

Watch out — hackers can exploit this plugin to gain full control of your WordPress site

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

An older version of LiteSpeed Cache, a popular plugin for the WordPress website builder, is vulnerable to a high-severity flaw that hackers have been increasingly exploiting.

The flaw is described as an unauthenticated cross-site scripting vulnerability, and tracked as CVE-2023-40000. It carries a severity score of 8.8. 

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