By Spammy posts and pages being placed on WordPress websites is one of the most common infections that we come across. The reason being is that the attack is very low-level in terms of sophistication: All that is required of the attacker is to brute force their way into the wp-admin panel; from there they just have their scripts/bots post spam posts and pages effectively achieving a blackhat SEO attack. Since an out-of-the-box WordPress website contains no protection on admin access other than a password (with no limit on the number of failed login attempts), and the admin users can often be discovered via enumeration, this remains a very popular type of spam infection on the platform.
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