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Backdoor Found in WordPress Plugin With More Than 300,000 Installations

A WordPress plugin installed on over 300,000 sites was recently modified to download and install a hidden backdoor ... Known only as Captcha, the plugin was one of the most popular CAPTCHA ... read more

WordPress plugin used by 300,000 websites hides a secret backdoor

It impacts the Captcha plugin for the WordPress ... sites. Exactly three months after purchasing the plugin, its new developers released version 4.3.7 with an added backdoor. With over 300,000 ... read more

WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 60,000+ Sites

A WordPress anti-spam plugin with over 60,000 installations patched a ... encoded user input to the unserialize() PHP function when CAPTCHA are used as second challenge, which could lead to ... read more

Thousands of WordPress sites targeted with malicious plugin backdoor attacks

Security researchers found JavaScript code installing four backdoors to WP-powered sites They also found ... a popular WordPress plugin with some 18,000 installations, was enabling malicious ... read more

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are known to ... read more

Popular Wordpress Plugin compromised with malicious code

A popular Wordpress plug-in installed on around 300,000 websites has been compromised with malicious code opening a back door ... over all the rights to use and manage the free version of Captcha ... read more

Backdoor Found in WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations

For the past two and a half months, a WordPress plugin named Display Widgets has been used to install a backdoor on WordPress sites across the Internet. The backdoor code was found between Display ... read more