Security News > 2024 > June > Plugins on WordPress.org backdoored in supply chain attack
A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP scripts that create new accounts with administrative privileges on websites running them.
Although it is possible that the attack impacts a larger number of WordPress plugins, current evidence suggests that the compromise is limited to the aforementioned set of five.
The malicious code in the infected plugins attempts to create new admin accounts and inject SEO spam into the compromised website.
"If you have any of these plugins installed, you should consider your installation compromised and immediately go into incident response mode." - Wordfence.
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