A WordPress plug-in called Captcha with more than 300,000 active installations contained a backdoor that allowed its maintainer to gain unauthorized administrative access to other people’s websites. The plug-in was apparently backdoored after its previous developer sold it to unspecified new owners in September. This is not the first time a popular piece of software..
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