Hidden Backdoor Found In WordPress Captcha Plugin Affects Over 300,000 Sites

  • Wednesday, 20th December, 2017
  • 13:30pm

With the amount of WordPress sites living on our network we felt that everyone should be aware of a Captcha plugin by BestWebSoft that is called Captcha Pro. The developer sold the plugin to an undisclosed buyer who then placed a backdoor in the code base which then is placed in a wordpress site using this plugin when the plugin is updated. 

 https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/wordpress-security-plugin.html 

If you or any of your clients are using this plugin in a wordpress site it needs to be removed immediately.

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