Three years ago we launched a bug bounty program to accelerate WordPress security research, and it has been incredibly successful and has since secured the WordPress community against 9,727 vulnerabilities reported through our program. We have thus far awarded a total of $981,251 to researchers around the world to reward the increased security they provide the WordPress community.
A year ago we extrapolated the progress in AI vulnerability research that we were seeing and realized that it would soon overtake human capability. We realized that, rather than allow a threat actor to lead innovation in vulnerability research, we needed to
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