The title is accurate, but I think a lot of people are objecting in comments here due to a general conflation of two separate concepts:
1) An exploit or vulnerability
2) A virus or trojan
An exploit/vuln is a bug in software (Wordpress in this case) that allows unauthorized access - a virus/trojan is an app with malicious intent: one typically needs to take advantage of an exploit (or social engineering) to install & execute said app. Like any app, it's generally developed for a specific platform (in this case, Linux).
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TL;DR: The Wordpress exploits are known - the news in this article is about a specific Liunux app being deployed using those exploits. The bugs in Wordpress are not the news.
The title is accurate, but I think a lot of people are objecting in comments here due to a general conflation of two separate concepts:
1) An exploit or vulnerability
2) A virus or trojan
An exploit/vuln is a bug in software (Wordpress in this case) that allows unauthorized access - a virus/trojan is an app with malicious intent: one typically needs to take advantage of an exploit (or social engineering) to install & execute said app. Like any app, it's generally developed for a specific platform (in this case, Linux).
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TL;DR: The Wordpress exploits are known - the news in this article is about a specific Liunux app being deployed using those exploits. The bugs in Wordpress are not the news.