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WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress, owned by Automattic, enabling product catalogs, checkout, and payment processing.
A dev.to analysis of 199 Shopify stores found 43% of product pages have a first-loaded image with no width or height. Image format is mostly settled at 94% WebP or AVIF, but 19.5% of pages have a first image with no alt attribute.
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One actor is exploiting stored XSS flaws in two WordPress plugins, one installed on more than 500,000 sites, to plant backdoors and rogue administrator accounts. Patchstack says updating the plugins blocks further exploitation but will not clean a site that is already compromised.
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Group-IB tied the Milk Dragon phishing kit to 258 phishing pages and victims in 66 countries, baited with fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok. An operator then relays the victim's own 3D Secure code to approve the fraudulent charge.
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Matt Mullenweg has named four new Automattic directors weeks after the old board's leave vote against him lasted 33 hours and 20 minutes. He controls 84% of the voting power, so the people who oversee him are people he chose.
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EU shops must show the Commission's official legal-guarantee notice, issued in 24 languages, unaltered on the storefront and in order emails. One WooCommerce build hit two snags, a block checkout that skips the classic hook and an English notice with no PNG for email.
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CVE-2026-27540 lets an unauthenticated request add php to the plugin's own upload allowlist and drop a webshell. The fix shipped on February 20, and the first exploitation spike came 104 days later, on June 4.
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Version 2 of the llms.txt proposal landed in August, Lighthouse has audited the file since Chrome 13.3, and three of the four big WordPress SEO suites generate one. Google Search still says nothing fetches it.
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Cloudflare caches by file extension and leaves HTML alone by default, so the exposure starts with the rule someone writes to lift the hit ratio. A dev.to write-up argues that rule has to match session cookies as well as paths.
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Matt Mullenweg went on leave last Thursday and was back by Saturday, with CFO Mark Davies standing in between the two notices. The company timed the absence to the minute and has declined to explain what changed.
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CVE-2026-27540 lets an unauthenticated POST save a PHP file, and 2.0.3.2 closes that write. Whether a file that already landed can run is a separate question, decided by how the server treats the upload directory.
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A dev.to walkthrough of WordPress's five bootstrap windows yields a usable triage rule, because calling too early throws while calling too late does nothing, and load order decides which environment shows you the bug.
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Every plugin and theme release now sits in a six-hour cooldown while AI models and Jetpack Scan grade the changes, and a high enough risk score halts distribution before any human looks at it. WordPress says the check already caught a backdoor.
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A solo developer synced a production WooCommerce store to Russia's 1C ERP in real time over CommerceML, and the sharpest agent friction he records lands on a design token rule about corners.
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Unserializing and re-serializing fixes the byte counts, but it only gets you one layer down, where Elementor's JSON-inside-a-string and json_encode's escaped slashes leave your search term matching nothing at all.
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The projects say Stripe cut the access off before the full email list left. In a country where supporting an "undesirable" organization carries five years, the addresses that did leave are enough to open a case.
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A dev.to account of moving a production WooCommerce store down to Nginx FastCGI cache makes its case on concurrency rather than milliseconds, then spends most of its trouble on the WooCommerce cart cookie. That is the right order.
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A dev.to teardown argues that hiding prices with CSS or a template override leaves the number in variation JSON, Store API responses, JSON-LD and feeds. "Hidden" has to be defined per surface.
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There was never a disaster quarter. Six years of decelerating growth and a fee that ignored merchant volume did the work, and a smaller rival now sets the price.
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Ten pre-registered WebMCP tools are live on Liquid storefronts with nothing installed. Four of them write, and the changelog says nothing about how you would know they ran.
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A rebuilt WordPress rig tested 10.6.28 through 13.0.1-RC on identical data. Nearly every query difference was noise, and one UPDATE plan got twice as slow from 11.4 onward.
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