A high-risk vulnerability in the WordPress Download Manager plugin has been found that can be exploited to upload backdoors to affected websites.

The developers of the plugin’s have addressed the vulnerability with the release of WordPress Download Manager 2.7.5. So all website owners that use this plugin should update their installations as soon as possible.

The plugin has a remote code execution/remote file inclusion vulnerability that can be leveraged to hijack WordPress websites by injecting backdoors and modifying administrator credentials. So this allows malicious individuals to make their own personally way in to your site to take full control of it.

A excellent way for website owners to keep track of new vulnerabilities is to check the WPScan Vulnerability Database : https://wpvulndb.com/

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