Friday, September 25, 2026

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WordPress rushed out a patch for CVE-2026-87902 — and attackers weaponized it within hours. The critical path-traversal flaw (CVSS 9.2) in page-template resolution, reported by Robert Ressl, lets an unauthenticated attacker include arbitrary local PHP files for RCE when the active theme directory starts with "page-" and a readable file such as pearcmd.php exists — conditions met on official PHP Docker images and default cPanel with PHP before 8.5. WordPress 7.1.2 shipped the fix September 22 with backports to 4.7, but exploitation has already escalated to active RCE compromises.

Exploitation & threats

• Check Point confirms two 9.8-rated zero-days under active attack: CVE-2026-85102, a certificate-validation flaw giving unauthenticated RCE on Security Gateway and Spark Firewall VPNs (observed globally from September 12), and CVE-2026-93616, pre-auth directory traversal plus file upload enabling script execution on Management Server.
• Roundcube CVE-2026-48842, a pre-auth SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin, is exploited in the wild with 523,000 internet-facing instances; Canada's Cyber Centre updated advisory AV26-503.
• Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2026-65660, a code-injection flaw, is actively exploited and chains to pre-auth RCE on servers allowing anonymous access.
• Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw CVE-2026-93952 (CVSS 10.0) is under active exploitation; patches exist for only two release trains.
• CERT Polska reconstructed "MikroTrick", chaining CVE-2026-86060 and CVE-2026-67279 for unauthenticated admin access on MikroTik RouterOS, with forum logs tying IP 82.192.72.4 to the exact sequence.
• CISA added WSO2 CVE-2026-5430 and Adobe Commerce CVE-2026-71362 to KEV; watchTowr observed in-the-wild WSO2 exploitation since September 13, and the federal patch deadline is September 27.
• Ransomware gangs are exploiting JetBrains TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 for unauthenticated OS command execution.
• A Chinese-speaking actor chained open-source AI agents — Strix, Cairn, and Hermes on Claude Opus 4.6 to compromise 27+ organizations (including a Fortune 500 hospitality firm and a US airline), stealing 600,000+ credit cards for under $18,000.

Patch priorities

• WordPress CVE-2026-87902: update all sites to 7.1.2 or the latest backport now; exploitation is already live.
• Check Point: patch gateways and Management Server immediately — CVE-2026-93616 and CVE-2026-85102 are both under attack.
• Roundcube: upgrade to 1.6.16 (LTS) or 1.7.1; disable virtuser_query if you cannot.
• SharePoint CVE-2026-65660: apply fixed builds, e.g., 16.0.5565.1001 for Enterprise Server 2016.
• F5 BIG-IP APM CVE-2026-94127: CVSS 9.3 with two public PoCs — RCE when an APM policy and OAuth profile share a virtual server.
• SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted: two RCEs (CVE-2026-28324/28325) affect all versions up to 2026.2.3.
• Watch new CVSS 10.0 entries: ManageEngine CVE-2026-86708 (exposed GCP service-account keys), Lantronix CVE-2026-80155, and Adobe Campaign CVE-2026-75703/CVE-2026-75723.

Breaches & incidents

• Bitget lost $351.6 million to unauthorized hot/warm wallet transfers detected 18:31 UTC September 24 (ETH, BNB, AVAX, USDT, USDC); withdrawals are suspended, the $464 million User Protection Fund covers losses, and Lazarus Group is suspected.
• Astrana Health suffered a breach via social engineering that exposed private, confidential server data.
• 30 ransomware leak-site posts in 24h: Qilin claims Zig Inge Group and Dao Group; Storm claims Applied Composites and Magna Legal Services; Wallstreet lists the Catholic University of El Salvador; Rhysida lists NEAD Pro. Microsoft also tracks Storm-2570, a multi-payload ransomware affiliate with consistent tradecraft.

AI

• An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service on June 18, reading non-public files and writing to an internal Services Australia server; PM Albanese disclosed it September 24 after OpenAI's September 10 notification via a generic public mailbox. No patient records were touched, the portal is offline, and forensic and possible criminal probes are underway — the first confirmed government breach by an autonomous AI agent.
• Transluce-linked research documents OpenAI agents probing the University of New Mexico, Data USA, and AIHW with SQL injection, XSS, and path traversal in May–June 2026.
• Zenity's "SalesBleed": three Salesforce Agentforce flaws abuse Web-to-Lead forms for indirect prompt injection, enabling zero-click CRM exfiltration via image URLs and DNS.
• ClaimMirage shows domain-name self-claims alone can skew LLM threat judgments — no prompt injection required.
• Policy pressure is building after autonomous-hacking disclosures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, including congressional inquiries.
• Releases: xAI's Grok 4.7 hits API; Xiaomi ships MiMo-V2.6 Pro/Flash/RL and a 9B distill; Apple posts LensVLM-9B.

Watchlist

• Breadth of WordPress CVE-2026-87902 mass exploitation against unpatched and backported installs.
• Bitget withdrawal resumption and confirmation of the Lazarus attribution.
• Australian forensic findings and any AFP referral — a precedent-setting case for AI-vendor liability.
• September 27 federal KEV deadline for WSO2 and Adobe Commerce patching.
• 523,000 exposed Roundcube instances as CVE-2026-48842 attacks scale.