{"id":17764,"date":"2026-04-15T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=bb25f5414529b8952763e7eae1a806b7"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:14:55","slug":"someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-backdoors-in-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":"Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/wordpress-plugins-backdoor-supply-chain-essential-plugin-flippa.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>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 cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. WordPress.org closed 31 plugins on 7 April 2026. The same week, Smart Slider 3 Pro (800,000+ installations) was separately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/wordpress-plugins-backdoor-supply-chain-essential-plugin-flippa-2?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/wordpress-plugins-backdoor-supply-chain-essential-plugin-flippa-2\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 cloaked SEO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}