Welcome back to the Patchstack Weekly security update! This update is for week 8 of 2022 and will dive into several vulnerabilities and talk about vulnerability risks.

This week's vulnerability news will have a lot to cover. One WordPress plugin had a vulnerability so severe the WP.org team initiated an auto-update for all installations. Another WordPress plugin patched 7 security bugs over 2 releases, and WordPress core had a vulnerability disclosed publicly before they could release a patch.

With so much news to cover about vulnerabilities, I think it is a good week to discuss vulnerability severity and how all vulnerabilities are not equal. In this week's knowledge share I will talk about what makes some vulnerabilities more or less severe than others, and how you can use this knowledge to prioritize patching time.