CEO Mark Maunder of Feedjit based in Seattle cautions that cyber-criminals are abusing publishing platform WordPress' popular extension for compromising websites struck with security flaws. Theregister.co.uk reported this on August 2, 2011.
Maunder said that the security flaw impacted practically every website which was loaded with TimThumb a feature for resizing images as it moved along with WordPress.
Apparently there's little security of the extension since with it attackers can easily run malware on Internet sites, which utilize it. Maunder added that a minimum of 2 websites had by now been hijacked.
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