Display Widgets < 2.7 - SEO Spam Injection (Hidden Functionality)

Embedded Malicious Code
CVE Not available
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 23, 2017
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The Display Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a developer-created backdoor that injected SEOspam into sites in versions up to, and including, 2.6.3.1. Any added content is hidden from logged-in users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug display-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7
Patched Version
  • 2.7
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