Malcious Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin backdoors 1,500 WordPress sites

Cybersecurity brief from BleepingComputer.

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Malicious versions of the Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin for WordPress have been distributed to more than 200 customers after a threat actor compromised the maintainer's website and pushed updates that created a hidden user account. […]

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