Attackers have found a way to escalate the benign WordPress REST API flaw and use it to gain full access to a victim's server by installing a hidden backdoor.

The REST API is enabled by default on all sites using WordPress 4.7.0 or 4.7.1. If you are running these versions of the CMS, you are vulnerable to this attack. However, if you have automatic ...

A WordPress core maintainer said the company delayed disclosing the vulnerability, technically an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that existed in a REST API endpoint, to ...

Now we get a better sense of Krogsgard's excitement over WordPress' new direction and the range of projects he predicts WordPress will be used to support. "The REST API makes WordPress more ...

Automattic builds on PHP to create a RESTful, open source backend WordPress interface - SiliconANGLELast, but not least, the company has also released a WordPress desktop application for OS X that ...