# WP Top News — Build a Complete News Portal in WordPress

> Build a WordPress news portal with beautiful news layouts, breaking news tickers, featured sliders, and homepage hero sections.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 09:35 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `wp-top-news`
- Author: Hossni Mubarak
- Version: 2.4.4
- Active installs: 800+
- Last update: 2026-10-28 (16 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.8, PHP 7.4
- Tags: news, news grid, News list, news portal, news ticker
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-top-news/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 16 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready, Leaves a mess ↔ Clean exit, Focused ↔ All-in-one (personality).

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-04-30 MEDIUM: Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter (up to 2.4.1). WF-d694491c-c0f5-4418-805a-db792ea4f712-103, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d694491c-c0f5-4418-805a-db792ea4f712?source=api-prod
- 2022-03-04 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization Checks (before 2.0). WF-39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42-465, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39fb0499-9ab4-4a2f-b0db-ece86bcf4d42?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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