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Nearly 7K WordPress Sites Compromised by Balada Injector

About 6,700 WordPress websites have been infected with the Balada Injector malware, after using a Popup Builder plug-in with a cross-site scripting vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-6000.
The Balada Injector campaign is long-running and is an operation that has compromised more than 1 million WordPress sites in the past six years.
In the attack, a backdoor is injected to redirect visitors from a legitimate WordPress site to fake support pages and compromised or scam websites.
This vulnerable version of the Popup Builder plug-in has more than 200,000 installations, so more infections could be coming.


This Cyber News was published on www.darkreading.com. Publication date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:05:07 +0000


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