Important Vulnerability on Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

Last week the Imunify360 Operations Team spotted some malware embedded in a WordPress plugin. On Thursday, they reported it to the WordPress Plugin Review Team, who closed that plugin the very next day. 

We’d like to share with you what our Operations Team saw, so you know more about how malicious plugins work, and how you can avoid them. Additionally, read our website hosting security article and learn how to keep your website secure in 2021.