{"id":224533,"date":"2025-11-05T05:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-post-smtp-to-hijack-admin-accounts"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:25:19","slug":"hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-post-smtp-to-hijack-admin-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-post-smtp-to-hijack-admin-accounts","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploit WordPress plugin Post SMTP to hijack admin accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-post-smtp-to-hijack-admin-accounts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Post SMTP is a popular email delivery solution marketed as a feature-rich and more reliable replacement of the default \u2018wp_mail\u2019 function.<\/p>\n<p>On October 11, WordPress security firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/400000-wordpress-sites-affected-by-account-takeover-vulnerability-in-post-smtp-wordpress-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wordfence<\/a> received a report from researcher \u2018netranger\u2019 about an email log disclosure issue that could be leveraged for account takeover attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts. Post SMTP is a popular email delivery solution marketed as a feature-rich and more reliable replacement of the default \u2018wp_mail\u2019 function. On October 11, WordPress security firm [\u2026]<\/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-224533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224533","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=224533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}