Title: Plugin was accessed by hack
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin was accessed by hack

 *  Resolved [Ryan Welcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welcher/)
 * (@welcher)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-was-accessed-by-hack/)
 * Hello – I just wanted to give you the heads up that a site that I manage was 
   compromised and the attacker was able to write files to the plugin folder for
   this plugin. No others were affected.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/nospamnx/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/nospamnx/)

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 *  Plugin Author [foobar2022](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubi23/)
 * (@kubi23)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-was-accessed-by-hack/#post-4441063)
 * It would be great to have more specifics on this in order to fix a potential 
   bug. Do you have a CVE? How can you be sure that the attackers used a potential
   vulnerability in the plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan Welcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welcher/)
 * (@welcher)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-was-accessed-by-hack/#post-4441092)
 * I don’t believe that the attackers got in through the plugin, it looks like they
   were POSTing to cgi_bin. It may have just been luck that they chose this plugin
   to augment. I just wanted to let you know.

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 * Last reply from: [Ryan Welcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welcher/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-was-accessed-by-hack/#post-4441092)
 * Status: resolved