28/04/2024
🙁 5.5 million hacking attempts: WP Automatic plugin became a burden for 30,000 WordPress sites
Cybercriminals began to exploit a critical vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for👩💻 WordPress .
This allows you to create accounts with administrative privileges and install backdoors for long-term access.
Installed on over 30,000 sites, the WP Automatic plugin allows administrators to automate the import of content from various sources for publishing on a WordPress site.
Vulnerability💉 SQL injection CVE-2024-27956 Affects WP Automatic versions prior to 3.9.2.0 . The bug was made public on March 13 by researchers at PatchStack .