A serious vulnerability in WordPress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 has been recently found that allows a web-site to be easily defaced.

If you use WordPress and your version is 4.7.0 or 4.7.1, please update to 4.7.2 as soon as possible.

All Flaming Ltd customers with a Site Maintenance agreement will have done as part of the service.

If your website is hosted with Flaming and you require assistance with updating please contact us on help@flamingltd.com where we will be able to provide a quote for the work.

More information about the vulnerability can be found here:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/wordpress-rest-api-vulnerability-abused-in-defacement-campaigns.html