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Creepy Crawlers: Hunting Those Who Hunt For WordPress Plugins

GreyNoise
GreyNoise
Published January 19, 2026Original Report

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We were engaging in some routine clustering on untagged or only-generically-tagged HTTP traffic when a fun pattern jumped out: thousands of requests hitting /wp-content/plugins/*/readme.txt . It doesn’t take a cybersecurity wonk to come to the conclusion that this is basic WordPress plugin enumeration. The reason this stood out is that it showed up under the generic “Web Crawler” tag (and, only that tag), meaning we don’t currently classify this as the enumeration that it is.…

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TypeIndicatorConfidenceScoreFirst Seen
CVECVE-2025-12450MediumScore 51/100First seen
CVECVE-2024-28000MediumScore 53/100First seen

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