Out now: The Repository #314 ποΈ
π WordPress 7.0.3 patches 12 vulnerabilities as bug bounty reports hit 450 a month
β© Patchstack challenges WordPress .org to fast-track security fixes
π¨πΌβπ» Anne McCarthy joins the PHP Foundation board
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- Anthropic, pwn .ai, and Aikido Security are among the reporters credited in the release as AI-assisted vulnerability hunting drives a record month for WordPress vulnerability reports. π
- The Field Guide is out, developer notes are being published, and plugin and theme authors have two weeks to test before 7.1 goes live in Phoenix. π
- In June, WordPress Credits achieved its full-year target of 20 partner institutions at the halfway mark. Just a month later in July, it blew past the revised target too. π
- A forgotten server left running after a migration gave attackers a five-hour window to serve backdoored builds of Fluent Forms Pro and Ninja Tables Pro. π

