{"id":5734,"date":"2025-07-30T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/200000-wordpress-websites-at-risk-of-being-hijacked-due-to-vulnerable-post-smtp-plugin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:01:45","slug":"200000-wordpress-websites-at-risk-of-being-hijacked-due-to-vulnerable-post-smtp-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/200000-wordpress-websites-at-risk-of-being-hijacked-due-to-vulnerable-post-smtp-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"200,000 WordPress websites at risk of being hijacked due to vulnerable Post SMTP plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    200,000 WordPress websites at risk of being hijacked due to vulnerable Post SMTP plugin<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Over 200,000 websites running a vulnerable version of a popular WordPress plugin could be at risk of being hijacked by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/200-000-wordpress-websites-at-risk-of-being-hijacked-due-to-vulnerable-post-smtp-plugin\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>200,000 WordPress websites at risk of being hijacked due to vulnerable Post SMTP plugin Over 200,000 websites running a vulnerable version of a popular WordPress plugin could be at risk of being hijacked by hackers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,131,593],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-vulnerability","category-wordpress","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734"}],"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=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}