Nine Security Vulnerabilities Patched by WordPress Version 4.8.2

Nine Security Vulnerabilities Patched by WordPress Version 4.8.2

WordPress.org has released a new version of its content management system – version 4.8.2.  This latest version fixes nine issues of security.  Five of these issues involved cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The main issue was in $wpdb->prepare().  It was capable of creating unexpected and unsafe queries which would lead to an SQL injection. The company … Read more

Making the Web Dynamic

The Greatest Machine on the Planet (and You Own One)

In order to make websites more dynamic and user-friendly, additional technology has been developed. Ajax is a technology that allows the easy exchange of data and the automatic update of a web page.  This technology allows this to happen without the user needing to refresh the page. Ajax – Asynchronous Java Script and XML is … Read more