WP backdoors delivered via code snippets

Jul 22 2024

We have recently encountered a creative way to hide exploits on WP sites by using plugins that provide custom PHP code snippets. This article should serve as a warning why such plugins are automatically a security risk and should be avoided on all Wordpress sites whenever possible.

selenium-wire: How to resolve No module named blinker._saferef

May 01 2024

Out of nowhere all of our Python projects that utilize selenium-wire suddenly stopped working when redeployed. It turns out that selenium-wire is no longer maintained as of January 2024 and the project depends on package blinker, specifically file blinker._saferef that is no longer available in latest blinker versions 1.8.0 and 1.8.1.

Managing zip files with PHP composer

Feb 06 2024

We have recently moved all Wordpress-based development in Triton IT to Bedrock by Roots.io. One of the perks of this system is the ability to manage all external code with PHP composer. What is the only caveat?