WEST PALM BEACH, FL – This morning, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team published details about a critical vulnerability discovered in two themes by Elegant Themes, Divi and Extra, as well as the Divi Builder plugin. Combined, these products are installed on an estimated 700,000 sites.
Elegant Themes provides some of the most popular WordPress themes in the world and includes a visual page builder.
We initially reached out to Elegant Themes on July 23, 2020 and, after establishing an appropriate communication channel, we provided the full disclosure details on July 28, 2020. The developers responded on June 29, 2020 to let us know a patch would be coming in the next version. Patches were released yesterday, on August 3, 2020, in version 4.5.3 for all products.
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About The Author: John Colascione is Chief Executive Officer of Internet Marketing Services Inc. He specializes in Website Monetization, is a Google AdWords Certified Professional, authored a ‘how to’ book called ”Mastering Your Website‘, and is a key player in several Internet related businesses through his search engine strategy brand Searchen Networks®
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