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We released APIv3, the successor to APIv2, on March 20th 2018. The new APIv3 requires users to register a free account on wpvulndb.com and use an API Token to access our API. With the old APIv2, no user registration or API Tokens were required. Requiring API Tokens meant that we could easily identify heavy usage of our API by a…

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What are database backup files? There are many tools and WordPress plugins that allow you to create a backup of your database and export it to a file. Sometimes these backup files can end up in publicly accessible locations and with predictable names, such as backup.sql, database.sql, example.com.sql, and so on. What are the security risks with WordPress…