Popular WordPress Plugin Scripts Tampered to Plant Hidden Backdoors on Sites [email protected] (The Hacker News)

An attacker tampered with trusted JavaScript files used by WordPress sites running PushEngage, OptinMonster, and TrustPulse, turning those files into a way to break into the sites.

When a site administrator was logged in as the file loaded, the code created an admin account under the attacker’s control and installed a hidden plugin that opened a way back in. Ordinary visitors did not trigger itRead More 


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