New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution
- ID
- 26072
- Status
- new
- Published
- 19 Sep 2026, 12:56 AM
- Fetched
- 19 Sep 2026, 3:17 AM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-wordpress-click2shell-flaw-forces.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Excerpt
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 install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only
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