{"id":2879,"date":"2024-12-12T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:14:18","slug":"wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Hunk Companion Plugin Flaw Exploited to Silently Install Vulnerable Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalicious actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Hunk Companion plugin for WordPress to install other vulnerable plugins that could open the door to a variety of attacks.<br \/>\nThe flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-11972 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the plugin prior to 1.9.0. The plugin has over 10,000 active installations.<br \/>\n&#8220;This flaw poses a significant security risk, as it\u00a0Malicious actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Hunk Companion plugin for WordPress to install other vulnerable plugins that could open the door to a variety of attacks.<br \/>\nThe flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-11972 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the plugin prior to 1.9.0. The plugin has over 10,000 active installations.<br \/>\n&#8220;This flaw poses a significant security risk, as it\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMalicious actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Hunk Companion plugin for WordPress to install other vulnerable plugins that could open the door to a variety of attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-11972 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the plugin prior to 1.9.0. The plugin has over 10,000 active installations. &#8220;This flaw&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/wordpress-hunk-companion-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-silently-install-vulnerable-plugins\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordPress Hunk Companion Plugin Flaw Exploited to Silently Install Vulnerable Plugins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2880,"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\/2879"}],"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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}