{"id":203919,"date":"2025-01-17T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/w3-total-cache-plugin-flaw-exposes-1-million-wordpress-sites-to-attacks"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:24:02","slug":"w3-total-cache-plugin-flaw-exposes-1-million-wordpress-sites-to-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/w3-total-cache-plugin-flaw-exposes-1-million-wordpress-sites-to-attacks","title":{"rendered":"W3 Total Cache plugin flaw exposes 1 million WordPress sites to attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/w3-total-cache-plugin-flaw-exposes-1-million-wordpress-sites-to-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps.<\/p>\n<p>The W3 Total Cache plugin uses multiple caching techniques to optimize a website\u2019s speed, reduce load times, and generally improve its SEO ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cve.org\/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2024\u201312365<\/a> despite the developer releasing a fix in the latest version of the product, hundreds of thousands of websites have still to install the patched variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps. The W3 Total Cache plugin uses multiple caching techniques to optimize a website\u2019s speed, reduce load times, and generally improve its SEO ranking. The flaw is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}