Update Your All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin Now
The Sucuri Blog issued a notice that a popular SEO plugin for WordPress web sites had a major security vulnerability. The plugin name is the “All in One SEO Pack” and the fix is easy, just make sure to update the plugin immediately. The vulnerability opened up WordPress blogs that used the plugin, that had […]
Barry Schwartz on June 3, 2014 at 9:10 am | Reading time: 1 minute
The Sucuri Blog issued a notice that a popular SEO plugin for WordPress web sites had a major security vulnerability.
The plugin name is the “All in One SEO Pack” and the fix is easy, just make sure to update the plugin immediately.
The vulnerability opened up WordPress blogs that used the plugin, that had subscribers, authors and non-admin users logging in to wp-admin. The code in the plugin had two security issues that enabled hackers to:
(1) Conduct privilege escalation
(2) Cross site scripting (XSS) attacks
Again, the fix is simple, just upgrade to the latest version available for this plugin.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.