Attackers are using Eval PHP, an outdated legitimate WordPress plugin, to compromise websites by injecting stealthy backdoors. Eval PHP is an old WordPress plugin that allows site admins to embed PHP ...

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, with a market share of more than 60%. A big support community and a number of available free plugins make building a website ...

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve ...

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 ...

A hot potato: WordPress plugins can significantly expand the native capabilities of the popular content management system, but they can also become a double edged sword. When malicious code finds its ...