Trusted WordPress Plugins Hijacked in 8-Month Stealth Backdoor Campaign

Hackers secretly planted a remote code-execution backdoor in more than 30 popular WordPress plugins, leaving it dormant for about 8 months before activating malware that rewrote wp-config.php and injected cloaked SEO spam at scale. The incident centers on “Essential Plugin,” a portfolio of 30+ free plugins with paid upgrades used for sliders, countdown timers, FAQs, […]

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