Wordfence PRISM Detected Backdoored WordPress Plugin within Two Hours of it Being Introduced

On July 28th, 2026, our autonomous AI vulnerability intelligence agent, Wordfence PRISM, identified a critical Authentication Bypass backdoor in Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, a WordPress plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations, less than two hours after the malicious code was introduced.

This post was originally published on Wordfence by Chloe Chamberland.

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