WooCommerce users are advised to update as soon as possible
WooCommerce is a popular plug-in of WordPress that many people use when creating a web stores.It also allows you to use special plug-ins for WooCommerce, however recently there was a leak found in one of these plug-ins.The plug-in we are going to talk about today has the name WooCommerce Checkout Manager, if you are using this then it is highly recommended to update it as soon as possible.
What does the plug-in do exactly
As indicated above, this is the WooCommerce Checkout Manager plug-in, but what exactly does this plug-in do?With this plug-in, you as the administrator of the website can easily modify the order page of their shopping cart.The plug-in currently has about 60,000 installations on WooCommerce websites.On Tuesday, April 23, it was announced that there was a security leak in the plug-in.
This would allow the malicious person to remotely execute arbitrary code on your website, in the worst case they could take over your website.WordPress was quick to respond and therefore temporarily removed the plug-in from their plug-in page, however there is some good news.
The good news is that they have already released an update for this leak, so you can safely use this plug-in.When you use our WordPress hosting you will not have to worry about this.If you use our hosting everything will be updated automatically so your WooCommerce website is safe.
Managed WordPress for extra security
If you are using hosting and WordPress you will probably perform every update manually at the moment.As a company it is possible that you do not have the time to do this.You can always hire an IT professional to keep this up to date for you, however, the costs for this can also be quite high.
If you are in such a situation, WordPress hosting is perfect for you.You only pay 8.94 per month and everything is automatically taken care of, all updates but also other things.
Managed WordPress hosting also makes daily automatic backups of your website.This provides extra security and if something goes wrong you can restore the previous version within seconds.We also have malware scanning on these packages, this provides even more security on your WordPress site.Another small thing is that you are standard on an SSD package, this ensures that your website loads faster than on a total package.
If you have any questions about WooCommerce or WordPress you can always see if someone is on the chat.If no one is on the chat you can always create a ticket to our helpdesk.
