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Urgent WordPress Update Fixes Critical Flaw in Jetpack Plugin on Million of Sites.

#iip_updates . #Information_is_Power . Read more here https://informationispowah.blogspot.com/2023/06/urgent-wordpress-update-fixes-critical.html in the link . #we_inform_the_uninformed . By THN. WordPress has issued an automatic update to address a critical flaw in the  Jetpack plugin  that’s installed on over five million sites. The vulnerability, which was unearthed during an internal security audit, resides in an API present in the plugin since  version 2.0 , which was released in November 2012. “This vulnerability could be used by authors on a site to manipulate any files in the WordPress installation,” Jetpack said in an advisory. 102 new versions of Jetpack have been released to remediate the bug. While there is no evidence the issue has been exploited in the wild, it’s not uncommon for flaws in popular WordPress plugins to be leveraged by threat actors looking to take over the sites for malicious ends. This is not the first time severe security weaknesses in Jetpack