AIOS WordPress Plugin Faces Backlash for Storing User Passwords in Plain Text
All-In-One Security (AIOS), a WordPress plugin installed on over one million sites, has issued a security update after a bug introduced in version 5.1.9 of the software caused users’ passwords being added to the database in plaintext format.
“A malicious site administrator (i.e. a user already logged into the site as an admin) could then have read them,” UpdraftPlus, the maintainers of AIOS,
“A malicious site administrator (i.e. a user already logged into the site as an admin) could then have read them,” UpdraftPlus, the maintainers of AIOS,
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