Popular Wordpress Plugin compromised with malicious code

Nicholas Fearn
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Wordpress removes popular plug-in over security fears

A popular Wordpress plug-in installed on around 300,000 websites has been compromised with malicious code opening a back door into the websites.  Wordpress stumbled across the plug-in and banned...

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