{"id":5597,"date":"2025-07-24T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:05:13","slug":"hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Deploy Stealth Backdoor in WordPress Mu-Plugins to Maintain Admin Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers Deploy Stealth Backdoor in WordPress Mu-Plugins to Maintain Admin Access<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy backdoor concealed within the &#8220;mu-plugins&#8221; directory in WordPress sites to grant threat actors persistent access and allow them to perform arbitrary actions.<br \/>\nMust-use plugins (aka mu-plugins) are special plugins that are automatically activated on all WordPress sites in the installation. They are located in the &#8220;wp-content\/mu-plugins&#8221;<\/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\/07\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Deploy Stealth Backdoor in WordPress Mu-Plugins to Maintain Admin Access Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy backdoor concealed within the &#8220;mu-plugins&#8221; directory in WordPress sites to grant threat actors persistent access and allow them to perform arbitrary actions. Must-use plugins (aka mu-plugins) are special plugins that are automatically activated on all WordPress sites [&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-5597","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\/5597"}],"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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}