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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Industry reports #domains#godaddy
Ranked by domains on their nameservers, GoDaddy leads with 73.1 million. Ranked by hosting attribution it falls to 3.5 million, but that column records whose address space a site is served from. We resolved a sample of GoDaddy's domains: 89% land in blocks registered to Amazon.
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
Stock reports #ai#cloud
IONOS will reduce headcount from about 3,800 to about 3,350, spending around EUR 35 million once to save up to EUR 30 million a year from 2027. IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and cloud, and its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast is unchanged.
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Security
The WordPress 7.1.2 Flaw Was Exploited in Hours. Theme and Host Decide the Damage.
Attackers were writing PHP files through pearcmd.php by the evening of the day WordPress 7.1.2 shipped, and whether a site is reachable at all depends on its theme layout and on register_argc_argv, which is on by default under cPanel below PHP 8.5.
Software reviews
EmDash 1.0 Is Stable. Its Sandboxed Plugins Cannot Touch the Database, and That Is the Whole Pitch.
EmDash 1.0 is stable: marketplace plugins run in isolated Workers with declared capabilities, authors own their registry entries, hosts need Node or Workers.
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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Security
WordPress 7.1.1 Fixes a Comment-Form XSS. The Payload Passes the Sanitizer.
WordPress 7.1.1 fixes CVE-2026-93485, a stored XSS delivered through the ordinary comment form by an anonymous visitor and missed by wp_kses. Two of the other ten fixes came from Anthropic, and three in ten sites run a version 6 branch reached only by a backport.
Security
A Critical libheif Bug Reachable Through WordPress Uploads Still Has No CVE
A researcher uploaded a crafted photo to a clean WordPress site and left a working PHP file on the server. The flaw is in libheif, a system library that arrives with the operating system, and twenty days after the fix shipped it still has no CVE number for patch pipelines to match.
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Elementor Opens an MCP Beta to Claude, Codex and Cursor
Elementor, on more than ten million sites, has opened a beta letting Claude, Codex, Cursor and other MCP tools build pages as native Elementor structures. It runs on atomic pages, output stays a draft, and three of the nine capabilities need a second Elementor plugin.
Security
Ten IP Addresses Sent at Least 94,000 Attempts to Exploit a WooCommerce Plugin.
A critical file-upload flaw in a paid WooCommerce extension was disclosed in February, and Wordfence has since blocked more than 100,000 attempts to exploit it. The largest published spike came on August 30, and ten source addresses account for at least 94,490 of the blocked requests.
Partners
Why Unfinished Websites Are Costing Hosting Companies More Than They Think
An agency founder spent eighteen years being paid to finish websites for people who had already bought hosting elsewhere. He argues that customer was the host's first, that the loss rarely looks like a loss, and that support tickets are full of requests hosts currently turn away.
Security
EU Software Makers Now Have 24 Hours to Report an Exploited Flaw.
Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act took effect on September 11, giving manufacturers 24 hours to file an early warning on an actively exploited flaw. License is not the test, monetization is, and the equivalent duty for open-source stewards does not begin until December 2027.
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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
Security
Nearly Two-Thirds of All-in-One WP Migration Installs Remain Unpatched Two Weeks Later
Two weeks after the CVE-2026-19949 patch, WordPress.org statistics show 35 percent of installs on the fixed version, leaving about 3.2 million on a vulnerable version. Wordfence has published the chain from trackback to remote code execution, and Patchstack has raised its rating to medium priority.
Security
Attacks on the Elementor Pro Flaw Began the Day It Was Disclosed
A critical Elementor Pro flaw was disclosed on August 19 and attacked the same day, with one firewall vendor blocking more than 190,000 attempts. The fix had already shipped, only sites with a published upload form were reachable, and the check for compromise takes one look at a single directory.
Security
A High-Severity Patch for Five Million WordPress Sites Was Labeled as a Text Fix
Two unauthenticated flaws in plugins on millions of WordPress sites were patched the same day, days before the CVE records went public. The changelogs gave no severity signal, and for anyone running a fleet, that gap is the real story.
Security
InMotion Rolls Out Monarx ThreatShield Inside the PHP Engine Across Its Fleet
InMotion is switching on Monarx ThreatShield fleet-wide, blocking attacks inside the PHP runtime rather than filtering requests in front of it. Its own July incident report, with two sites taken over in under half a minute each, documents the problem this product class targets.
Events
What WebHosting.Today Learned at WordCamp US 2026
WordCamp US 2026 drew close to 1,200 people to Phoenix, more than a third of them first-timers, and shipped 21 contributions in a reimagined Contributor Day. Porkbun, Hosting.com, BigScoots and CloudLinux told us how they are handling AI and faster threats, and what brings them to events.
Security
Forminator’s 9.8 Flaw, and Eleven More Fixes in Nineteen Days
Forminator's file upload flaw scores 9.8 and needs no authentication, but it takes a form with both an upload and a select field, and the default .htaccess meant to stop execution does nothing on NGINX. The changelog records twelve security releases in nineteen days.
Security
WordPress 7.0.4 Fixes a PNG That Runs Code. The Flaw Was Almost 10 Years Old.
WordPress 7.0.4 closes CVE-2026-65640, present since version 4.7: a file named .png that hides PostScript could reach ImageMagick and Ghostscript and run code on the server. It needs an author account, but XML-RPC skips the upload check, so multi-author and membership sites should update first.
Industry reports
Google’s Field Data Ranks the Platforms Behind Live Sites by Speed, and the Gap Is More Than Twofold
We pulled real-user Core Web Vitals for two dozen platforms from Google's field data. Closed builders beat premium hosts, sister brands differ by 21 points, HostGator anchors the bottom, and the developer clouds fail on responsiveness. Speed turns out to be a rankable output.
Security
An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25. Attackers Weaponized the Patch in Ninety Minutes.
WordPress shipped its second security release in three weeks. Around the first one, both ends of the vulnerability lifecycle collapsed: an AI model found the critical chain in 10 hours for about $25, and exploitation began 90 minutes after the patch shipped. Hosting companies own the gap in between.
Security
A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
A critical flaw in WordPress core, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, triggered a rare forced update to millions of sites. Within 72 hours it was mass exploitation, because forced updates never reach everyone. Why patched and safe are not the same thing.