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Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

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Attackers Exploit CVSS 10.0 Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability

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26 Aug
Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE

A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. [...]

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18 Sept
New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution

WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to

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15 May
Avada Builder WordPress plugin flaws allow site credential theft

Two vulnerabilities in the Avada Builder plugin for WordPress, with an estimated one million active installations, allow hackers to read arbitrary files and extract sensitive

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22 Sept
WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that

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22 Sept
WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script

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2 Sept
WordPress backup plugin flaw exposes millions of sites to takeover attacks

An SQL injection vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup plugin for WordPress could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute remote code and take control of

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7 Aug
New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution - Patch ASAP

WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai

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