The Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, installed on more than 70,000 WordPress sites, had a backdoor added five years ago that ...

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 be ...

An attacker purchased 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa, planted backdoors that lay dormant for eight months, then activated ...

Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of ...

Typically what happens is that a plugin contains a weakness (a vulnerability) that allows an attacker to compromise individual sites that use that version of a plugin. But these compromises are ...