{"id":2969,"date":"2025-04-01T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-html\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:05:29","slug":"hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Threat 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<\/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\/2025\/03\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-mu-plugins-to.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images Threat 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 [&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-2969","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\/2969"}],"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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}