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A vulnerability in an ACF addon plugin installed in 100k websites enables unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator privileges.
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Hostinger analyzed 66.7B bot requests across 5M+ hosted sites and found AI training crawlers are blocked more often, while OpenAI’s search bot expands.
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