{"id":245640,"date":"2026-10-19T22:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-compromised-to-backdoor-websites"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:42:50","slug":"wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-compromised-to-backdoor-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-compromised-to-backdoor-websites","title":{"rendered":"WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math-compromised-to-backdoor-websites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some downloads of the Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin from the vendor\u2019s official website carried malware that planted hidden backdoors in a supply-chain attack last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the vendor, a limited number of users who downloaded version 3.0.123 of the plugin between October 15 at 20:02 UTC and October 16 at 07:12 UTC received compromised versions that could compromise their websites upon activation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected plugin files contained malware that could compromise your website if the plugin was activated,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/rankmath.com\/kb\/pro-3-0-123-security-incident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rank Math warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some downloads of the Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin from the vendor\u2019s official website carried malware that planted hidden backdoors in a supply-chain attack last week. According to the vendor, a limited number of users who downloaded version 3.0.123 of the plugin between October 15 at 20:02 UTC and October 16 at 07:12 UTC received [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640","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=245640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}