Time to update WordPress again!

When is the best time to upgrade your WordPress installation, its plugins and themes? Pretty much as often as you can. And right now seems to be a particular good time again…

The combination of WordPress and the Elementor Pro website builder and WooCommerce e-commerce plugin is vulnerable to complete website take-over. The vulnerability lies with Elementor Pro, and a patched version is available.

Here is a nice write-up of the vulnerability and its exploit at arsTECHNICA:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites/

Please update immediately, and foster a habit of doing so regularly.