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A new WordPress plugin vulnerability has been discovered that could allow an attacker to gain access to a site’s administrator login page.

The vulnerability exists in the popular WPS Hide Login plugin and was discovered by a user with the handle thalakus who posted a brief description of the issue on WordPress.org’s support forum. 

The popular cPanel web hosting server control panel software recently issued a patch to fix a critical flaw in the log4j Java library discovered in part of the software used for email. The vulnerability itself is named, Log4Shell.

Log4j Critical Log4Shell Vulnerability

Log4j is a Java library that adds a drop-in functionality to many online software products. For an end user it’s not something they would generally download and use.

It’s a Java library that would be included as part of the software. Because of that, end users aren’t generally aware if the software they use contain the vulnerability.

The log4j vulnerability is rated at 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing the most dangerous level of vulnerability.

The vulnerability was described by a security researcher as…