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Ars Technica / Dan Goodin / Apr 7, 2015

It’s in the popular caching plugin WP Super Cache, used in many hundreds of thousands of websites. —JB

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Benton, Joshua. "If your site is on WordPress, this is a security hole you need to pay attention to." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Apr. 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2024.

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Benton, J. (2015, Apr. 7). If your site is on WordPress, this is a security hole you need to pay attention to. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/if-your-site-is-on-wordpress-this-is-a-security-hole-you-need-to-pay-attention-to/

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Benton, Joshua. "If your site is on WordPress, this is a security hole you need to pay attention to." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 7, 2015. Accessed November 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/if-your-site-is-on-wordpress-this-is-a-security-hole-you-need-to-pay-attention-to/.

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