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New wp2shell RCE Vulnerability Hits Millions of WordPress Sites, Emergency Patch Released
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed “wp2shell” has been discovered in WordPress Core, putting an estimated 500 million+ websites at risk of full takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Security researcher Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber’s Assetnote research team uncovered the flaw, which stems from a REST API batch-route confusion issue that leads to […] The post New wp2shell RCE Vulnerability Hits Millions of WordPress Sites, Emergency Patch Released appeared first on Cyber Security News.
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed “wp2shell” has been discovered in WordPress Core, putting an estimated 500 million+ websites at risk of full takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Security researcher Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber’s Assetnote research team uncovered the flaw,…
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