Backups are your best friend in a cybersecurity incident
UpdraftPlus the popular back-up plug-in for WordPress needs an upgrade to plug a security vulnerability. This upgrade was pushed out last Thursday to millions of users, who have automatic updates enabled.
UpdraftPlus security release – 1.22.3 / 2.22.3 – please upgrade – UpdraftPlus
Advice for Cisco admins from the NSA and more • The Register
However do not take this for granted. Check for yourself or get your website supplier to check that the update has happened – here is the version number you or they should be looking for – 2.22.3 – this is for the paid version.
For those hosting with Octagon, they have carried out this check and all of the clients are running on 2.22.4.25.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
