{"id":12035,"date":"2026-04-11T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:03:30","slug":"backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a\u00a0backdoor.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35\u00a0for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart\u00a0Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across its free and Pro\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/backdoored-smart-slider-3-pro-update.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a\u00a0backdoor. The\u00a0incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35\u00a0for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart\u00a0Slider 3 is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}