WordPress hosting company SiteGround recently released an urgent article stating that Elementor version 3 has a critical security vulnerability.
The vulnerability could allow a user who is registered on your website - including subscribers - to upload a zip file, pretend that zip file is a new version of Elementor, and allow them to gain full access to your website.
To ensure that your website is not at risk, you will need to log in the back-end of your website, conduct a full backup and update Elementor to the latest version. This is Elementor 3.12 at the time of writing.
The vulnerability occurs in earlier versions of Elementor from 3.0 to 3.2.
If you are unsure of whether your website is at risk or how to update Elementor, we highly recommend that you reach out to your web developer.
Hackers love finding easy targets like small to medium sized business websites. In contrast, large targets like banks, spend millions of dollars per year keeping hackers out, and have scores of teams monitoring hack attempts.
Once a hacker has access to a website, they can easily choose an item from their menu of devious tasks. We've hand picked five common reasons:
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To ease the burden of this, a lot of IT companies and some agencies will offer a website maintenance package.
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