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A major supply chain attack compromised over 30 WordPress plugins from the 'Essential Plugin' library. After being sold on Flippa to a commercial buyer, the plugins were updated with a dormant backdoor that triggered months later, using blockchain-based command-and-control to inject spam. WordPress.org eventually closed the plugins, but users must manually clean their compromised wp-config.php files.
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