Important Vulnerability on Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

An attacker gets in through a vulnerable plugin. They drop a backdoor file in wp-content/uploads. In the same session, they write a redirect script into wp_options and a spam link into wp_posts.post_content. A file scanner finds the backdoor. The database UPDATEs stay. The site gets cleaned and still serves pharma spam to search engines the next morning.

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