Hackers Exploiting Unpatched WordPress Plugin Flaw to Create Backdoor Admin

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Hackers Exploiting Unpatched WordPress Plugin Flaw to Create Backdoor Admin

As many as 200,000 WordPress websites are at risk of ongoing attacks exploiting a critical unpatched security vulnerability in the Ultimate Member plugin.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-3460, affects all versions of the Ultimate Plus plugin, including the latest version (2.6.6) that was released on June 29, 2023.Ultimate Member is a popular plugin that facilitates the creation of user profiles and communities on WordPress sites.

It uses a privilege escalation vulnerability used through UM Forms.

According to the release notes, Ultimate Member recommends that users disable the plugin until a proper patch that completely plugs the security hole is made available.

Users of Ultimate Member are advised to enable it with a temporary disable while the patch is available

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