WordPress 5.6 Risk: Here’s How to Protect Your Site
WordPress 5.6 was released on December 8, 2020. While this release has a number of beneficial improvements, it also includes something that introduces a potential security risk to your site. The WordPress 5.6 Risk WordPress 5.6 comes with application password support. This means that outside applications can connect to your site and, once the application has access, it can generate a password for that application. The normal process will look something like this: a third-party application requests to connect to your site and generate a password. You (or your site administrator) grants access. The application then generates a password for…