Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE
Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent.
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