Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
20-07-2026 23:57 via theregister.com

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when chained together, allow pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE). And security researchers tell us there’s a very good chance the miscreants had an AI assist. “Once the vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed, reproducing them with the help of frontier AI models was only a matter of time and tokens,” Jake Knott, watchTowr principal security researcher, tol
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