How a Flippa Purchase Turned 30+ “Essential Plugin” WordPress Plugins into Backdoor Bait
Last week I encountered a supply-chain incident that felt eerily familiar but much larger in scale. A client’s dashboard had started showing a warning from the WordPress.org Plugins Team about a plugin serving code that could permit unauthorized access. A deeper dive revealed an attacker had quietly weaponized an entire portfolio of plugins—planting a backdoor that lay dormant for months before being activated to serve cloaked SEO spam and redirects.…