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https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2018/12/Block-Icon-More.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2018/12/Block-Icon-More.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" /><figcaption>More</figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center\">Freedom to Build, Freedom to Write</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This new editing experience provides a more consistent treatment of design as well as content. 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What happened guys? <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/security?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#security</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/hack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hack</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/vulnerability?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#vulnerability</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/0day?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#0day</a> or something? <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordPress</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Gytis Repečka (@gytisrepecka) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gytisrepecka/status/1086753453429481473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>The hacker claims to be a disgruntled customer who had two websites hacked due to vulnerabilities in the WPML plugin: </p>\n<blockquote><p>WPML came with a bunch of ridiculous security holes which, despite my efforts to keep everything up to date, allowed the most important two of my websites to be hacked.</p>\n<p>WPML exposed sensitive information to someone with very little coding skills but merely with access to the WPML code and some interest in seeing how easy is to break it.</p>\n<p>I’m able to write this here because of the very same WPML flaws as this plugin is used on wpml.org too.</p></blockquote>\n<p>The hacker also claims to have exploited the same vulnerabilities in order to send the email to WPML&#8217;s customers and has <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190120015001/https://wpml.org/2019/01/wpml-warning/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published the same message to the plugin&#8217;s website</a>. The text is still live at this time and product pages have also been defaced.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Defaced product features page, for example. <a href=\"https://t.co/MWNZh6g1HQ\">pic.twitter.com/MWNZh6g1HQ</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Wordfence (@wordfence) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/wordfence/status/1086789010218016768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>The commercial multilingual plugin has been in business since 2009 and is <a href=\"https://wpml.org/home/about-us/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">active on more than 600,000 WordPress sites</a>. It is a popular plugin for business sites in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America, especially those with a global audience. Customers are still waiting for an official explanation from WPML. </p>\n<p>We contacted the company for comment but have not yet received a response. 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INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` VALUES (1,1,'nickname','[% admin_name %]'),(2,1,'first_name',''),(3,1,'last_name',''),(4,1,'description',''),(5,1,'rich_editing','true'),(6,1,'syntax_highlighting','true'),(7,1,'comment_shortcuts','false'),(8,1,'admin_color','fresh'),(9,1,'use_ssl','0'),(10,1,'show_admin_bar_front','true'),(11,1,'locale',''),(12,1,'wp_capabilities','a:1:{s:13:\"administrator\";b:1;}'),(13,1,'wp_user_level','10'),(14,1,'dismissed_wp_pointers','wp496_privacy'),(15,1,'show_welcome_panel','1'),(16,1,'session_tokens','a:1:{s:64:\"bdab0b5da9819b466d516f1de5db78ca586a9d31f83922e274886cf760f5f447\";a:4:{s:10:\"expiration\";i:1548959679;s:2:\"ip\";s:13:\"50.201.183.99\";s:2:\"ua\";s:82:\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0\";s:5:\"login\";i:1548786879;}}'),(17,1,'wp_dashboard_quick_press_last_post_id','4'),(18,1,'community-events-location','a:1:{s:2:\"ip\";s:12:\"50.201.183.0\";}');
CREATE TABLE `wp_users` (
  `ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `user_login` varchar(60) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_pass` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_nicename` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_email` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_url` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_registered` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `user_activation_key` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `user_status` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `display_name` varchar(250) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
  KEY `user_login_key` (`user_login`),
  KEY `user_nicename` (`user_nicename`),
  KEY `user_email` (`user_email`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

INSERT INTO `wp_users` VALUES (1,'[% admin_name %]',MD5('[% password %]'),'[% admin_name %]','[% email %]','','2019-01-29 18:34:25','',0,'[% admin_name %]');


