{
  "id": 539958,
  "title": "BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/bdthemes-supply-chain-attack-poisons-json-to-create-rogue-wordpress",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T05:48:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/bdthemes-supply-chain-attack-poisons.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. \"Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository,\" Wordfence researcher Paolo Tresso said.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}