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WordPress Plugin ‘Simple Ads Manager’ Exploit

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Christine Hall
Apr 13, 2015

Simple Ads Manager is a plugin that we’d evaluated about a year ago. It was deactivated, but we’d failed to remove it from the server after we’d determined that it wouldn’t meet our needs. Bad move. The cracker/hackers had found it.

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Christine Hall

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