CVE-2026-126697 Quick Page/Post Redirect 5.2.1 - 5.2.3 - Backdoor via Off-Repository Update Channel
unknown quick page/post redirect plugin: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
The Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 was distributed with a hidden update mechanism that fetched Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 updates from its author's own server instead of WordPress.org, which was used to push a backdoored build to sites, allowing the attacker controlling that server to inject arbitrary content into pages and to deliver arbitrary code to affected sites.
Version 5.2.1, as published on WordPress.org, bundled the Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 Update Checker library (updater/ directory) configured to poll https://anadnet.com/updates/?action=get_metadata&slug=quick-pagepost-redirect-Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4. In March 2021 that server delivered a modified 5.2.3 build, different from the 5.2.3 later published on WordPress.org, which kept the update channel and added a the_content filter that, for logged-out visitors on single posts and pages, fetched content from https://w.anadnet.com/bro/3/ (passing the site host, request URI and visitor User-Agent) and prepended the response to the post (observed serving SEO spam links to search engine crawlers). Because the version string matched a later WordPress.org release, affected sites were not offered a clean update until 5.2.4.
Indicators of compromise:
- Outbound requests to anadnet.com or w.anadnet.com
- An updater/ directory (Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 Update Checker, Puc v4p10) inside wp-content/Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4/quick-pagepost-redirect-Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4/
- The strings filter_the_content_in_the_main_loop, ppr_pro, QQQEND or w.anadnet.com in page_post_redirect_Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4.php
- page_post_redirect_Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4.php with MD5 ad717da18cf8a2b69899c0d7dafee05a (tampered 5.2.3)
Remediation: remove the Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 (it has been closed on WordPress.org), or at minimum reinstall the clean 5.2.4 from WordPress.org, delete any leftover updater/ directory, verify the files with "wp Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4 verify-checksums quick-pagepost-redirect-Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin WordPress plugin before 5.2.4", clear the opcode cache, and treat any site that ran the tampered build as potentially compromised.
- EPSS
- 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 3rd percentile. Scored 2026-11-14. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
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- WPScan (CNA)
- NVD analysis
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