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The takeover of popular WordPress plugins and then use of them for nefarious purposes has been a major issue when it comes to the security of WordPress plugins this year. Even if the takeover is not done with malicious purposes in mind, a new developer that doesn’t know what they are doing can take an otherwise relatively secure plugin and in a short time make tens or hundreds of thousands of websites insecure. At least that latter issue is true of the plugin Captcha.
The plugin Captcha has 300,000+ active installations according to WordPress.org, including this website and another of ours. Back in July the plugin was handed over from the previous developer, BestWebSoft, to another entity. Then in September an update to the plugin caused the admin area of our other website using the plugin to not function, we were not alone in that. It was only at that point that BestWebSoft mentioned that ownership had been transferred, though the new developer isn’t named: [Read more]