On October 12, 2024 local time, Mullenweg announced that he would fork ACF into a new plugin called 'Secure Custom Fields.' Mullenweg cited the fact that ACF updates are now done directly from the WP ...

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) WordPress plugin with over 2 million installations announced the release of a security update, version 6.2.5 that patches a vulnerability, the severity of which is not ...

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” ...

A WordPress plugin with over 2 million active installations left its users open to an alarming security flaw. The popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by WP Engine allows WordPress admins to ...

The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a plug-in developed by WP Engine. Specifically, ...

A popular WordPress plugin could be putting around two million websites at risk of attack. Millions of WordPress-powered websites are using the Advanced Custom Fields and Advanced Custom Fields Pro ...

WP Engine won a preliminary injunction preventing WordPress from blocking its access to WordPress.org. Since September this year, the two companies have been embroiled in a public conflict about ...

Missing authorization vulnerability …allows a remote authenticated attacker to view the information on the database without the access permission. This kind of vulnerability allows an attacker to ...