Last Updated on January 27, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
I’m getting more requests from site owners to embed youtube videos.
I came across a post on LinkedIn.com that mentioned a serious backdoor in a joomla youtube embedder plugin.
Looking at the site normally would not pick this up. However, the search engines would. At the very least, this could hurt your sites ranking by associating it with spam. A worst case would be if the link led to malware.
Any production site should be constantly updated and monitored for this type of problem.
https://watchful.li/news/serious-backdoor-vulnerability-located-in-popular-youtube-plugin-for-joomla.html