WordPress upgraded to 4.3.1, patching a pair of vulnerabilities in the core engine, including a cross-site scripting issue enabled by a vulnerability in shortcodes. WordPress core engine security ...

Shortcodes in WordPress are small snippets of text that you can enter into a post or page body which trigger a larger function to run at that position. It’s the equivalent of inserting a program ...

The United States government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin, warning that it was discovered to contain a Cross Site Request ...

A recent WordPress security update featuring multiple security fixes is also causing some sites to stop functioning, causing one developer to exclaim, “This is chaos!!” The update removed a key ...

Important Note: When using shortcodes, there should not be a space after the first bracket and the element name. The spaces used in the examples below are for display purposes only. If you are copying ...

Update: As pointed out in the comments, the WordPress shortcode didn’t work because it is specifically for embedding on a WordPress.com blog. Since TNW doesn’t use WordPress.com (we use our own ...

The plug-in’s default settings spawned flaws that could allow for full site takeover but have since been fixed in an update that users should immediately install, Wordfence researchers said. Tens of ...