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Popular WordPress Plugin Scripts Tampered to Plant Hidden Backdoors on Sites

📅 15 June 2026 at 09:59 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
Popular WordPress Plugin Scripts Tampered to Plant Hidden Backdoors on Sites

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 it

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