Portfolio and Projects, CVE-2026-6443
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- Apr 17, 2026
- Research Description
- All plugins by Essentialplugin for WordPress are vulnerable to an injected backdoor in various versions. This is due to the plugin being sold to a malicious threat actor that embedded a backdoor in all of the plugin's they acquired. This makes it possible for the threat actor to maintain a persistent backdoor and inject spam into the affected sites.
- Affected versions
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max 1.5.6.1.
- Status
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vulnerable
| Previous vulnerability researches |
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| WP Featured Content and Slider (deb685ef98e2416e44ec11d0a7e66dbb81ca65cf) , Jun 07, 2024 |
| WP Featured Content and Slider (CVE-2026-6443) , Apr 23, 2026 |