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The maintainers of the Jetpack WordPress plugin have released a security update to remediate a critical vulnerability that could allow logged-in users to access forms submitted by others on a...

WordPress plugin Jetpack released a critical security update earlier today, addressing a vulnerability that allowed a logged-in user to access forms submitted by other visitors to the site. [...]

WordPress has issued an automatic update to address a critical flaw in the Jetpack plugin that's installed on over five million sites.The vulnerability, which was unearthed during an internal security audit, resides in an API present in the plugin since version 2.0, which was released in November 2012.

Automattic, the company behind the open-source WordPress content management system, has started force installing a security patch on millions of websites today to address a critical vulnerability in the Jetpack WordPress plug-in. According to the official WordPress plug-in repository, the plug-in is maintained by Automattic, and it now has over 5 million active installations.