It isn’t great idea to tell people to update software and not mention that they are updating to software that is still insecure, but that is what NinTechNet did today in a post about the plugin Bold Page Builder being exploited. Also not great is that first to changes made to the plugin related to that exploitation had a changelog entry of “Minor bug fixes and improvements.”, only the third indicated a security issue, “Improved security.”

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