by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
On September 13, 2022, The Verge relaunched its website on a brand-new front end. Its content management system had not changed: the outlet only replaced its in-house tool with WordPress later, underneath a site that was already live. That feat was only possible...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
In the United Kingdom, more than one hundred and forty government blogs run on a single WordPress installation. The Government Digital Service’s blog, the Technology in Government blog, the departments’ blogs: each has its own address, team and posts, but...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
In the fall of 2025, attackers tried tens of thousands of times to open administrator accounts on WordPress sites that had never invited them. All it took was submitting a plugin’s registration form with one extra field added to the request: the desired role,...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
On November 20, 2025, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, fined the publisher of vanityfair.fr 750,000 euros. The site did have a cookie banner, a “Refuse all” button and a consent management platform. But one cookie was set before any click,...
by Francis Rozange | Oct 2, 2026 | WordPress
In 2025, Patchstack recorded 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress world, 42% more than in 2024. The number makes headlines every year. It is frightening, and almost useless as it stands: nearly two thirds of those flaws pose practically no threat to an ordinary...