Rather than juggling way too many tabs in Chrome, I sweep them all into OneTab and promptly forget about them—extensions and plugins are great. If I still had my own blog, I'd probably use them for all sorts of things, but third-party platform add-ons also represent a security concern.
It's important to double-check the provenance of anything you're considering adding, though I suspect few attackers will be quite as ambitious as the person who bought 30 WordPress plugins and then installed backdoors in all of them.
That's according to Austin Ginder, the founder of Anchor Hosting. He began to investigate after noticing the previously dormant Countdown Timer Ultimate had begun pushing out malicious code. A number of the affected plugins have since been taken offline (via TechCrunch).
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