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WordPress Uses AI to Stop Malicious Plugin Updates Before They Reach Millions of Websites
<p>WordPress has rolled out an automated, AI-driven security review that screens every plugin release before it reaches the WordPress.org update API, adding a critical checkpoint to a distribution pipeline that had previously lacked one. The move follows a real-world incident in which a backdoor was slipped into an update for a plugin with roughly 20,000 […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://cybersecuritynews.com/wordpress-uses-ai-to-stop-malicious-plugin/">WordPress Uses AI to Stop Malicious Plugin Updates Before They Reach Millions of Websites</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cybersecuritynews.com">Cyber Security News</a>.</p>
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