WordPress captcha plugin on 300,000 sites had a sneaky backdoor

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Story ImageWordFence says a fix has landed

The folk at WordFence are warning that the WordPress Captcha plugin, popular enough to get around 300,000 installations, should be replaced with the latest official WordPress version (4.4.5)."

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