A plugin author fixes a security bug and writes "General bug fixes". No CVE, no advisory, and your scanner stays quiet
We now read every new WordPress plugin release ourselves. 21% of the security fixes we confirmed were silent.
https://t.co/PkXuMcKqaA
We found a backdoor WordPress-plugin communicating with:
* update.02may2024[.]com - Update metadata and code packages
* heartbeat.02may2024[.]com - Site, plugin and version inventory
* log.02may2024[.]com - Error reporting
Anyone seem these? Plugin name was WP-Spam Shield Pro
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