Website owners using the popular MainWP Child WordPress plugin need to upgrade the plugin immediately to avoid a serious security vulnerability on their sites.
Posted on 12 March 2015 - SecurityWebsite owners using the popular MainWP Child WordPressplugin need to upgrade the plugin immediately to avoid a serious security vulnerability on their sites.
MainWP Child WordPress plugin is a popular plugin used predominantly by administrators operating a number of WordPress sites. It allows users to to control various WordPress installations across different hosting environments and locations.
Its main selling point, although it is a free download, is the ability to update all WordPress installs, plugins and themes for multiple sites from a single dashboard.
WordPress believes the plugin has more than 90,000 active installations at present.
MainWP Child WordPress plugin is subject to a serious privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an attacker to log into the website without needing to enter a password. In other words, the security mechanism stopping someone from editing, deleting or attacking websites using the plugin is not working.
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