{"id":3893,"date":"2025-03-31T14:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-inject-spam-and-hijack-site-images\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:12:24","slug":"hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-inject-spam-and-hijack-site-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-inject-spam-and-hijack-site-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are using the &#8220;mu-plugins&#8221; directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites.<br \/>\nmu-plugins, short for must-use plugins, refers to plugins in a special directory (&#8220;wp-content\/mu-plugins&#8221;) that are automatically executed by WordPress without the need to enable them explicitly via the\u00a0Threat actors are using the &#8220;mu-plugins&#8221; directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites.<br \/>\nmu-plugins, short for must-use plugins, refers to plugins in a special directory (&#8220;wp-content\/mu-plugins&#8221;) that are automatically executed by WordPress without the need to enable them explicitly via the\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are using the &#8220;mu-plugins&#8221; directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites. mu-plugins, short for must-use plugins, refers to plugins in a special directory (&#8220;wp-content\/mu-plugins&#8221;) that are automatically executed by WordPress without the need to enable them explicitly&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-inject-spam-and-hijack-site-images\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3894,"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\/3893"}],"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=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}