WordPress upgraded to 4.3.1, patching a pair of vulnerabilities in the core engine, including a cross-site scripting issue enabled by a vulnerability in shortcodes.

Tiled gallery: To disable the slideshow and display a regular WordPress tiled gallery, use slideshow=”false” in the shortcode. Transition effects: To use a left/right scrolling effect, use ...

Shortcodes in Wordpress are small snippets of text that you can enter into a post or page body which trigger a larger function to run at that position. It’s the equivalent of inserting a program ...

An advisory has been issued about a high-severity WordPress vulnerability that makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary shortcodes into sites using the WordPress Popular Posts plugin ...