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Millions of WordPress sites just got hacked... again

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Someone spent $100k buying a massive collection of WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them. Naturally, CloudFlare stepped in with EmDash: a slop-forked WP alternative that promises to fix plugin security for good.

#coding #programming #wordpress

🔖 Topics Covered

Wordpress plugin hack

EmDash

📚 Resources

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-inte...

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30...

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