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BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins
The Hacker News·August 11, 2026·1 min read
Cybersecurity researchers warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the CMS platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. Wordfence researcher Paolo Tresso said that unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository. The attack poisons JSON to create rogue WordPress admins.
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