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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Litespeed cache plugin for wordpress has a critical security vulnerability - What They Never Told You

Laptop computer displaying logo of WordPress, a free and open-source content management system (CMS).

Security researchers have found yet another critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that allows threat actors to take over websites.

Four months after patching an unauthenticated cross-site scripting flaw, the popular optimization plugin was found vulnerable to a bug described as an “unauthenticated account takeover vulnerability”. In other words, an unauthenticated malicious visitor could abuse the hole to gain access to any logged-in user, including admin accounts. That, as you may presume, grants the attacker full access to the website to do with it as they please.

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