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Hidden Backdoor Found In WordPress Captcha Plugin Affects Over 300,000 Sites
2017-12-20 10:03

Buying popular plugins with a large user-base and using it for effortless malicious campaigns have become a new trend for bad actors. One such incident happened recently when the renowned developer BestWebSoft sold a popular Captcha WordPress plugin to an undisclosed buyer, who then modified the plugin to download and install a hidden backdoor. In a blog post published on Tuesday, WordFence


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Wordpress 7 2 95 44 18 159
Plugin 2 0 13 1 0 14