{"id":244074,"date":"2026-09-15T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/malcious-admin-menu-editor-pro-plugin-backdoors-1500-wordpress-sites"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:59","slug":"malcious-admin-menu-editor-pro-plugin-backdoors-1500-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/malcious-admin-menu-editor-pro-plugin-backdoors-1500-wordpress-sites","title":{"rendered":"Malcious Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin backdoors 1,500 WordPress sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malcious-admin-menu-editor-pro-plugin-backdoors-1500-wordpress-sites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malicious versions of the Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin for WordPress have been distributed to more than 200 customers after a threat actor compromised the maintainer\u2019s website and pushed updates that created a hidden user account.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Janis Elsts says an unauthorized party accessed the <a href=\"http:\/\/adminmenueditor.com\">adminmenueditor.com<\/a> website on Monday and uploaded version 2.35 as an update for the plugin\u2019s Pro version. The update included an includes\/wp-user-consent.php file that installed a web shell on affected websites.<\/p>\n<p>After noticing the intrusion, Elsts removed the malicious update and pushed a clean version 2.36 on the same day at 19:00 UTC. However, the hacker still had access to the website and compromised the new version, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious versions of the Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin for WordPress have been distributed to more than 200 customers after a threat actor compromised the maintainer\u2019s website and pushed updates that created a hidden user account. Developer Janis Elsts says an unauthorized party accessed the adminmenueditor.com website on Monday and uploaded version 2.35 as an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244074","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=244074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}