From Securi
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we found a critical vulnerability affecting the popular MainWP Child WordPress plugin. According to worpdress.org, it is installed on more than 90,000 WordPress sites as as remote administration tool. We contacted the MainWP team last week and they patched the vulnerability in version 2.0.9.2 last Friday.
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http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/03/secur...ss-plugin.html
If you are using the MainWP-Child Plugin you will want to immediately upgrade the plugin or disable if unable to upgrade immediatelty.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mainwp-child/
As always FutureQuest encourages anyone running any scripts, such as
WordPress, to ensure they maintain the most up to date version and install
any patches released to reduce the chances of a compromise of your site.
This also includes any plugins, addons and themes...
It is always best to subscribe to any Security or Update mailing list provided
by the Authors of the script(s) you are running.
The FutureQuest Team
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