Posts tagged “wordpress plugin”

We were doing routine maintenance on a client’s WordPress website when we noticed that they’d installed a plugin. Installing plugins is something we don’t normally encourage (or even allow) our clients to do but there are of course exceptions to the rule. We wanted to learn more about the plugin so we could determine if it could safely be removed and to cut a long story short we ended up going through the code itself only to find the plugin displays, without permission, a hyperlink to an external website. This was ad injection.

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