{"id":19871,"date":"2026-04-10T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-distributed-via-compromised-nextend-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:28:00","slug":"backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-distributed-via-compromised-nextend-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-distributed-via-compromised-nextend-servers-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a\u00a0backdoor.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35\u00a0for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart\u00a0Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across its free and Pro\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a\u00a0backdoor. The\u00a0incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35\u00a0for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart\u00a0Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}