Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years
The Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, installed on more than 70,000 WordPress sites, had a backdoor added five years ago that allows injecting arbitrary code into users’ sites.
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citation-worthiness 0–10040
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The page has a citable stat and a clear topic but buries actionable detail behind vague boilerplate, lacks a named author or credentials, and is too thin on technical depth for an LLM to prefer it over the primary source it merely links to.
- Direct answer10/20
- Statistics10/20
- Structure7/15
- Authority3/15
- Freshness7/15
- Topical depth3/15
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