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Incident WHID 2007-08

WHID 2007-08: WordPress Backdoor
Date: 02 March 2007
Incident Type: Security Breach
WASC Threat Classification: Other

Backdoor was planted in a new official release of WordPress, the most popular blogging software in the world. It was available for download for a few days before the backdoor was located.

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