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Another Day, Another WordPress Hole: Forminator Joins The Security Merry-Go-Round

At this point, keeping a WordPress site secure is starting to feel less like website maintenance and more like playing Whac-A-Mole with a keyboard.

Patch one plugin, another vulnerability appears. Update that one, another security alert lands. Then a plugin you patched a few weeks ago suddenly needs another urgent update because researchers have found something else.

The latest example is Forminator, the popular WordPress forms plugin developed by WPMU DEV and installed on more than 600,000 websites.

Patchstack disclosed a high-priority vulnerability affecting Forminator versions up to and including 1.57.2, assigning it a CVSS score of 9.1. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-92229, involves unauthenticated arbitrary shortcode execution through the current_url parameter. Version 1.57.3 is listed as the patched release.

That alone would be concerning enough.

The bigger problem is that this is simply the latest entry in what has become a remarkable run of security fixes for the...

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RatHat Android Malware Uses AI to Target Banking Credentials in Real Time

A newly discovered Android malware strain named RatHat uses generative AI to navigate and control infected devices in real time. Mobile security firm Zimperium identified the threat, sharing its research with Hackread.com. zLabs links RatHat to threat actors that appear to be operating in China. Unlike traditional mobile threats

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Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance – and costs 40% less

ZDNET’s key takeaways * Claude Opus 5.5 could be a big win for power users. * Developers may see faster coding with fewer steps. * Anthropic says the upgrade is safer, cheaper, and less wordy. Less than two months after the release of Claude Opus 5, Anthropic is back with Opus

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Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product

Sponsor Posts Get UAE eInvoicing ready with Zoho — The UAE announced its eInvoicing mandate on 30 October 2024, when the Ministry of Finance issued Federal Decree-Laws No. 16 and 17 of 2024, laying the legal groundwork for a national eInvoicing system. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365,

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Oura Seeks Up to $2.2 Billion in IPO at $15.6 Billion Valuation

We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our reviews. See our Terms of Use for details. Oura is taking its smart-ring business to Wall Street. The company has launched a U.S. initial public

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RatHat Android Malware Uses AI to Target Banking Credentials in Real Time

Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance – and costs 40% less

Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product

Oura Seeks Up to $2.2 Billion in IPO at $15.6 Billion Valuation