Do You Use The WP Bakery Page Builder Plugin? If Yes, Must Read
It has just come across my desk today that the WP Bakery Page Builder Plugin Vulnerability That Affects Millions of Sites has now been Resolved, but you MUST Update your plugin to at least version 6.4.1
To cut a long story short, researchers found a vulnerability within WP Bakery Page Builder that allowed attackers to inject malicious JavaScript (JS) into pages/posts. This vulnerability allowed the attacker to inject code into pages/posts that then attacked your site visitors browsers.
This particular WP Bakery vulnerability required an attacker to obtain at least the Contributor or the Author level credentials to a website. If you are the only user, then you should be ok, however, it is always important to keep your plugins fully up to date.
This vulnerability was first discovered in July 2020 and WP Bakery issued a patch in August, however, other problems still existed, so they issued a second patch in September. A final patch that fully closed this vulnerability was then issued on 24th September 2020.
If you use, or have installed, WP Bakery, please ensure that you update it ASAP.
Recent Comments
18
Apologies Geoffrey, I have no idea how I missed this. WP Bakery is a Page Builder, similar to Elementor and Beaver etc.
Nope, you don't need page builders, especially if you are happy with your website's appearance :-)
See more comments
Thanks for the warning Chrystopher.
You're welcome Johannes :-)