EU Cyber Resilience Act Article 14 reporting obligations begin, requiring 24-hour exploit and incident reports; Patchstack launches managed compliance for open-source maintainers.
Starting 11 September 2026, EU Cyber Resilience Act Article 14 requires manufacturers and open-source stewards to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents to ENISA via the EU Single Reporting Platform, with a 24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and final reports within 14 days or one month. Patchstack launched a free managed compliance service, acting as Assigned Representative for open-source maintainers and providing a managed VDP. The obligations apply retroactively to all products available on the European market. Patchstack, which has coordinated over 50% of known WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities, already serves more than 1,000 open-source projects.
Wordfence blocked 440,000+ exploit attempts against critical unauthenticated RCE flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro.
Wordfence reports mass exploitation of two unauthenticated arbitrary file upload RCE flaws: CVE-2026-14894 in Super Forms (CVSS 9.8, fixed in 6.3.314) and CVE-2026-32475 in Elementor Pro (CVSS 9.0/9.8, fixed in 4.2.2), with over 250,000 and 190,000 blocked exploit attempts respectively. Attackers upload Base64-encoded PHP web shells such as Mushr00w_upl.php to execute code, create administrator accounts, exfiltrate data, or seize sites. Super Forms exploitation began July 14, 2026 and peaked above 40,000 requests on August 18; Elementor Pro attacks started August 19. Successful Elementor Pro exploitation requires a published page with a Form widget containing a File Upload field.
Critical unauthenticated PHP object injection (CVE-2026-82222) in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin chains to remote code execution; version 4.16.7.2 fixes it.
Patchstack disclosed CVE-2026-82222 (CVSS 10.0), an unauthenticated PHP object injection in GiveWP versions through 4.16.7.1 that chains through TCPDF and Give\TestData gadget classes to arbitrary OS command execution as the web server user. On versions 4.16.5.1 and below, a default installation with one published donation form is enough to exploit, with no user interaction required. Version 4.16.7.2 blocks unsafe serialized data, hardens the gadget chain and cleans already-stored database records; a separate registration bypass issue remains unresolved.
Five critical flaws (CVSS 9.8–10.0) in WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP enable WordPress admin takeover and RCE.
Wordfence and Patchstack disclosed five critical flaws in WordPress plugins and themes: WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP. The issues include unauthenticated authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76581), arbitrary file write leading to RCE (CVE-2026-18431), administrator account takeover via password-reset URL exposure (CVE-2026-19632), privilege escalation (CVE-2026-19598), and PHP object injection to RCE (CVE-2026-82222, CVSS 10.0). Patchstack says the GiveWP flaw chains an unsafe unserialize helper, attacker-controlled donation data, and a gadget chain in shipped code.
Patchstack details an unauthenticated PHP object injection chain enabling remote code execution in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin.
Patchstack disclosed an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin. An attacker with no account can execute arbitrary commands on the server of an affected GiveWP site. The full chain is reachable when a site has one published donation form and one active payment gateway, a configuration the researcher describes as a common default.
Attackers are exploiting two unauthenticated WordPress auth bypasses (CVE-2026-61979, CVE-2026-15981, max CVSS 9.8) in miniOrange SAML SSO to gain admin sessions.
Patchstack disclosed two flaws in the Xecurify miniOrange SAML 2.0 Single Sign On WordPress plugin: CVE-2026-15981 (CVSS 9.8) accepts malformed signatures because mo_saml_validate_signature() loosely checks the tri-state result of openssl_verify(), and CVE-2026-61979 (CVSS 8.1) enables privilege escalation via signature algorithm confusion. Both let unauthenticated attackers sign in as any WordPress user, including administrators; fixes shipped in Standard edition versions 17.0.6 and 17.0.5. DigitalOcean observed an attacker using the bypass to obtain an admin session cookie, opportunistic scanning is underway from six IP addresses, and PoC chaining code is public.
Patchstack case study says ManageWP blocked over 11.9M WordPress threats in six months, with top vulnerabilities weaponized in a median of five hours.
ManageWP reports blocking more than 11.9 million threats across managed WordPress sites in six months using Patchstack's vulnerability data and firewalling. The case study stresses that patching alone cannot close the gap, noting attackers weaponize the most-targeted WordPress vulnerabilities with a median of five hours. The piece is primarily vendor marketing aimed at agencies managing many sites.
DigitalOcean researchers reported a critical authentication flaw in miniOrange SAML SSO WordPress plugins, allowing login as WordPress admin across seven editions.
The DigitalOcean security team identified a critical flaw in miniOrange's SAML SSO WordPress plugins that allowed an attacker to authenticate as a WordPress administrator. Patchstack notes the issue spans seven editions of the plugin, all sharing a common slug. The write-up covers root cause analysis by DigitalOcean and vendor follow-up coordinated jointly with Patchstack; no specific CVE id is cited in the text.
Patchstack disclosed CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS 9.0), an unauthenticated file-upload flaw in Elementor Pro enabling PHP upload and RCE; fixed in version 4.2.2.
Patchstack researcher Tin Pham reported an unrestricted file upload flaw in Elementor Pro's Forms module (CVE-2026-32475, CVSS 9.0), affecting all versions up to and including 4.2.1. Submitting two file parts for one field bypasses the extension blocklist and writes attacker-controlled PHP into a public uploads directory, yielding unauthenticated remote code execution when a published Elementor page uses a Form widget with a File Upload field. A patched version 4.2.2 shipped August 19, 2026, a day after WordPress 7.0.4 fixed CVE-2026-65640 (CVSS 8.8), an RCE via Postscript file upload when Imagick and Ghostscript are in use.
Elementor Pro WordPress plugin has an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload flaw in its Forms module allowing remote code execution.
Patchstack disclosed a critical unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that can lead to remote code execution. The flaw is in the Forms module's File Upload field, where the extension check and the file-move step run in two separate loops with inconsistent handling of empty file entries. The writeup describes exploitation via crafted upload submissions; no CVE id or evidence of in-the-wild exploitation is given in the post.
FlyWP integrated Patchstack into its managed WordPress hosting platform via a new FlySecurity Pro add-on for proactive vulnerability protection.
FlyWP, a managed WordPress cloud hosting and server management provider, has integrated Patchstack vulnerability intelligence into its platform. The new FlySecurity Pro add-on gives customers proactive protection against WordPress vulnerabilities from a single dashboard. The announcement is a vendor partnership rather than a new flaw or incident.
WordPress 7.0.4 patches an author-level RCE in how uploaded media is handed to ImageMagick.
WordPress maintenance release 7.0.4 includes a security fix that changes how uploaded media is passed to ImageMagick, closing a path that let a logged-in author turn a crafted image upload into remote code execution. Patchstack's analysis explains the flaw as a file-type handling issue where a PNG may not be treated as a PNG. The text does not mention a CVE ID or observed exploitation, but the flaw affects extremely widely deployed software.
Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection Leading to RCE in GiveWP WordPress Plugin
CVE-2026-82222 is a deserialization of untrusted data flaw (CWE-502) in the GiveWP donation plugin for WordPress, developed by Liquid Web / StellarWP, affecting all versions through 4.16.7.1. The vulnerable code path is reachable over the network without authentication (CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N), allowing an attacker to supply a crafted serialized object that the plugin unserializes, resulting in PHP object injection. By exploiting gadget chains in the plugin or WordPress core, the attacker can achieve remote code execution and run commands on the WordPress server, with the scope-changed CVSS rating and high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts indicating full site or server compromise is possible. Any WordPress site running GiveWP version 4.16.7.1 or older is affected, and because donation plugins are typically deployed on donor-facing public pages, the vulnerable endpoints are often directly exposed to the internet. A public proof-of-concept exists, but current exploitation risk is assessed as low: EPSS is 0.4% (35th percentile) and the flaw is not yet in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
· Liquid Web / StellarWP GiveWP (WordPress plugin) all versions from n/a through 4.16.7.1 PoC large
Unauthenticated PHP File Upload (RCE) in Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin
Elementor Pro, the paid add-on to the widely used Elementor page builder for WordPress, is affected by an unrestricted upload of files with dangerous types (CWE-434) that can be triggered by unauthenticated attackers. An attacker sends a crafted upload request to the plugin's vulnerable endpoint and can upload a dangerous file — notably a PHP file — which the web server then executes, yielding remote code execution on the hosting account. The critical 9.0 CVSS score with scope change (S:C) and high impact across confidentiality, integrity and availability reflects that code execution lets an attacker take over the site, plant backdoors, modify content and potentially affect the underlying host. All Elementor Pro releases up to and including 4.2.1 are affected, meaning every site that has not yet updated to a fixed version is in scope. The flaw is not yet listed in CISA KEV and no public proof-of-concept is cataloged, and EPSS assigns a 2.4% 30-day exploitation probability (83rd percentile), but news reports already document hundreds of thousands of exploit attempts against Elementor Pro and Super Forms RCE flaws, so it should be treated as exploited in the wild.
· Elementor Pro (WordPress plugin) All versions from n/a through 4.2.1 (i.e., every release up to and including 4.2.1)mass
Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in TranslatePress WordPress Plugin
TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation for WordPress, in all versions up to and including 3.3.1, leaks sensitive data through its unauthenticated 'trp_get_translations_regular' AJAX action (CWE-640). When automatic string saving is enabled (the plugin's default) and an administrator's profile locale is set to a published secondary language, the raw password-reset URL — containing the plaintext reset key and login parameters — is persisted in the secondary-language translation dictionary table. An unauthenticated attacker can then retrieve these stored strings via the AJAX endpoint and use the leaked reset key to take over the administrator account. Any WordPress site running the affected versions under those configuration conditions is exposed. No public proof-of-concept or confirmed exploitation is known; the flaw is not in CISA KEV and EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation within 30 days.
· TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation (WordPress plugin) All versions up to and including 3.3.1large
Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write to RCE in Avada WordPress Theme
CVE-2026-18431 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) arbitrary file write vulnerability in the Avada WordPress theme (all versions through 7.16) that is exploitable when the bundled Fusion Builder plugin (all versions through 3.16) is also installed and active. A chain of missing authorization (CWE-862) and input validation weaknesses across the two components allows unauthenticated attackers to write attacker-controlled files to the server. Because the attacker can create and execute arbitrary PHP files, successful exploitation leads to remote code execution and complete site compromise. Exploitation requires both components to be active and certain administrator-authored content to be present, narrowing the practical attack surface. No public proof of concept, in-the-wild exploitation, or KEV listing is currently known, and EPSS estimates only a 0.6% chance of exploitation within 30 days.
· ThemeFusion Avada theme for WordPress all versions up to and including 7.16 · ThemeFusion Fusion Builder plugin for WordPress all versions up to and including 3.16 (when installed and active)mass
The Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.313 via the sub
The Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.313 via the submit_form function. This is due to missing file type validation and the absence of any capability check on the submit_form nopriv AJAX handler, whose only barrier is a session nonce freely obtainable by unauthenticated visitors via a separate nopriv endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible. The nonce requirement is trivially bypassed…
The SAML Single Sign On – SSO Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.4.
The SAML Single Sign On – SSO Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.4. This is due to the mo_saml_validate_signature() function performing a loose boolean check on the raw tri-state integer returned by PHP's openssl_verify(), causing an error return value of -1 to be evaluated as truthy and therefore treated as a successful signature verification. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing WordPress user, including administrators, by submitting a crafted SAMLResponse containing an…
Unauthenticated Admin Authentication Bypass in WPMU DEV Dashboard 5.0.1 and earlier
CVE-2026-76581 is a critical authentication bypass (CWE-347) in the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 5.0.1, caused by inconsistent HMAC message construction between the unauthenticated wdpsso_step1 and wdpsso_step2 AJAX actions: step 1 signs an unseparated concatenation of token, state, redirect, and domain, while step 2 verifies a concatenation that omits the domain field. An unauthenticated attacker can obtain a valid HMAC from step 1, move the domain value into the redirect field, and replay the signature to step 2, which accepts it and returns an authenticated administrator session. Only sites connected to WPMU DEV with Hub single sign-on (SSO) enabled and mapped to an administrator account are exploitable, and a successful attack grants full admin access, typically enabling complete site takeover. No exploitation has been reported: the flaw is not in CISA KEV, EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation within 30 days, and no public proof-of-concept is known.
· WPMU DEV Dashboard (WordPress plugin) All versions up to and including 5.0.1large
Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in WordPress Pods Plugin Enables Site Takeover
The Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields plugin for WordPress (all versions through 3.3.9) routes every access check on its pods_admin AJAX router — the method allowlist, nonce verification, login enforcement, and capability gate — through pods_error(), which in the JSON meta-box-loader compatibility path only writes a PHP error-log entry and returns false instead of terminating the request. As a result, an unauthenticated request sent through this AJAX path passes all of the plugin's guards without being stopped and can invoke privileged administrator actions. An attacker can escalate to Administrator or overwrite the password of any user account, including the site owner's, achieving complete site takeover or performing other administrator-level actions. Any WordPress site running an affected version of the plugin is exposed. No public proof-of-concept or confirmed in-the-wild exploitation is known yet, though the 9.8 CVSS score and elevated EPSS (2.8%, 86th percentile) make it a high-priority patching target.
· Pods Foundation Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields (WordPress plugin) All versions up to and including 3.3.9mass
Author-Level RCE in WordPress Core via Malicious Postscript File Upload
WordPress core is vulnerable to remote code execution when a user with Author-level privileges or higher (holding the upload_files capability) uploads a malicious Postscript file that the server processes using the Imagick image library with Ghostscript. Exploitation requires two server prerequisites: Imagick must be in use and Ghostscript must be installed, and the attacker needs an account with upload rights, so unauthenticated attacks are not possible. A successful attacker gains code execution on the web server with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CVSS 8.8). All versions of WordPress are affected; a fix shipped in WordPress 7.0.4 and was backported as a courtesy to all branches back to 4.7. No public proof-of-concept is known, the flaw is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS assigns a 1.9% probability of exploitation within 30 days, so no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation is documented.
· WordPress (core) All versions prior to the fix; fixed in 7.0.4, with the fix backported to all branches back to 4.7mass
Unauthenticated privilege escalation in miniOrange SAML SSO WordPress plugin
CVE-2026-61979 is an unauthenticated privilege-escalation flaw (CWE-266, incorrect assignment of privileges) in the miniOrange 'SAML SP Single Sign On' plugin for WordPress, affecting every version up to and including 5.4.3. Because it is reachable over the network with no privileges required and no user interaction (the CVSS 3.1 vector rates attack complexity as high), a remote attacker can abuse the plugin's SAML single sign-on handling to gain WordPress administrator-level privileges without valid credentials. With administrator access, an attacker can modify content, install plugins or themes, create rogue admin accounts, and use the site as a foothold. Any WordPress site running the affected versions is exposed, and reporting indicates the plugin's paid editions were also vulnerable to related flaws in the same campaign. No public proof-of-concept is known for this specific flaw and it is not in CISA KEV (EPSS ~0.3% over 30 days), but two separate CVSS 9.8 authentication-bypass flaws in the same plugin were exploited in the wild before they were even catalogued, and attackers are actively targeting miniOrange SAML flaws that grant WordPress admin access.
· miniOrange SAML SP Single Sign On (WordPress plugin) <= 5.4.3 · miniOrange SAML SP Single Sign On - paid/premium editions (reported alongside the actively exploited related flaws)large
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