{"id":244073,"date":"2026-09-15T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hackers-target-wordpress-sites-via-third-party-woocommerce-plugin"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:47","slug":"hackers-target-wordpress-sites-via-third-party-woocommerce-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hackers-target-wordpress-sites-via-third-party-woocommerce-plugin","title":{"rendered":"Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-target-wordpress-sites-via-third-party-woocommerce-plugin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026\u201327540 and impacts plugin versions 2.0.3.1 and older. It is an unauthenticated arbitrary file-upload vulnerability discovered by security researcher Teemu Saarentaus.<\/p>\n<p>An attacker can exploit it to upload PHP webshells and execute code, potentially leading to a complete site compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026\u201327540 and impacts plugin versions 2.0.3.1 and older. It is an unauthenticated arbitrary file-upload vulnerability discovered by security researcher Teemu Saarentaus. An attacker can exploit it to upload [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244073","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=244073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}