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.