{"id":10406,"date":"2026-10-19T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/popular-wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-pro-hijacked-to-deliver-self-restoring-backdoor\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:13:27","slug":"popular-wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-pro-hijacked-to-deliver-self-restoring-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/popular-wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-pro-hijacked-to-deliver-self-restoring-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCopies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a\u00a0security notice\u00a0published on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>Any site that installed and activated one of those copies should be treated as compromised, and the\u00a0Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a\u00a0security notice\u00a0published on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>Any site that installed and activated one of those copies should be treated as compromised, and the\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCopies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a\u00a0security notice\u00a0published on October 16. Any site that installed and activated one&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/popular-wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-pro-hijacked-to-deliver-self-restoring-backdoor\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}