WordPress SEO: Urgent Security Vulnerability

Urgent Security Vulnerability

WordPress SEO

secrecy-iconAn urgent security warning has just been issued for Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin, which has a vulnerability that allows hackers to inject nasty stuff into your WordPress website’s database. If your site has SEO, then you’re probably using Yoast’s fantastic tool.  The good news is that a fix has already been issued  and all that needs to be done is for your plugin to be updated.

Here’s more information from the WordPress Vulnerability Database:

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a popular WordPress plugin (wordpress-seo) used to improve the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of WordPress sites. The latest version at the time of writing (1.7.3.3) has been found to be affected by two authenticated (admin, editor or author user) Blind SQL Injection vulnerabilities. The plugin has more than one million downloads according to WordPress.

Read more details on the WordPress Vulnerability Database.

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