I’ve worked in WordPress security for 18 years. We Watch Your Website has been cleaning and protecting sites since 2007, and today we watch close to 4 million of them. I’ve seen just about every way a plugin can go wrong. So when I started building an AI-assisted analyzer to find vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins,…
By Tom Raef, Founder – We Watch Your Website There’s a moment in every security researcher’s career when something stops being theoretical and becomes undeniably real. For me, that moment came about halfway through this project, when I realized that every single platform we tested, without exception, was telling its users their app was ready…
Security Advisory | We Watch Your Website The calls started coming in before the coffee cooled. A WordPress site owner — developer by trade, not by security background — had used an AI assistant to build a custom plugin over a weekend. It handled contact form submissions, wrote data to a database, and passed a few…