WordPress admins urged to patch critical security bug

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WordPress admins urged to patch critical security bug in Essential Addons for Elementor plugin
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WordPress admins urged to patch critical security bug in Essential Addons for Elementor plugin

600,000 site owners are yet to update the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin

The developer of 'Essential Addons for Elementor' WordPress plugin has patched a critical remote code execution (RCE) bug in version 5.0.4 and older which could allow a malicious actor to execute a...

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