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WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

Newseze Wire·Fri, Oct 30, 2:08 PMWire: The Hacker News
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WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code executi…

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