{"id":218690,"date":"2025-07-25T04:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-maintain-admin-access"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:44","slug":"hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-maintain-admin-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-maintain-admin-access","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Deploy Stealth Backdoor in WordPress Mu-Plugins to Maintain Admin Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-deploy-stealth-backdoor-in-wordpress-mu-plugins-to-maintain-admin-access.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malware hidden in WordPress mu-plugins grants attackers full access and admin control, putting websites and users at serious risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware hidden in WordPress mu-plugins grants attackers full access and admin control, putting websites and users at serious risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}