Episode 95: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Affect Over 100K WordPress Sites




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Summary: Three critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Ultimate Member plugin put over 100,000 sites at risk. We also talk about the Page Experience metric to be added as a ranking signal for Google search and what this means for WordPress sites using page builders or Gutenberg. Microsoft warns against using telephone/SMS-based multi-factor authentication, and a number of zero day vulnerabilities were patched in Google Chrome and Windows.