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FlyWP Adds Proactive Vulnerability Protection with Patchstack

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.

Patchstack · 29d agoTools1

wp2shell: incident response guide (CVE-2026-63030 + CVE-2026-60137)

Eye Security published forensic IR tooling for wp2shell (CVE-2026-63030/CVE-2026-60137), the unauthenticated WordPress core RCE chain, after WordPress.org forced auto-updates.

wp2shell chains a REST API batch-endpoint route-confusion bug (CVE-2026-63030) with an SQL injection in WP_Query's author__not_in parameter (CVE-2026-60137), giving unauthenticated attackers rogue admin and code execution on default installs. Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber discovered the flaw, a public PoC exists on GitHub, and WordPress.org forced automatic updates across an estimated 200M+ sites. Eye Security released a compromise-scanner WordPress plugin and browser extension and notes database artifacts (oEmbed cache rows, changesets) are the primary evidence since the attack is log-blind; fixed versions are 6.8.6, 6.9.5, and 7.0.2.

Web discovery (articles for new exploits & KEV entries) · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-63030CVE-2026-601371

Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution on GiveWP

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.

Patchstack · 19d agoVulnerability

Wordfence Argus Finds Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Gravity Forms

Wordfence finds an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload flaw in Gravity Forms (1M+ installs) that can lead to remote code execution.

On August 9, 2026, Wordfence's Argus scanner discovered an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity Forms, estimated at over one million active installations. Attackers can write files with attacker-selected extensions to a public temporary upload directory, potentially enabling remote code execution. The post does not mention a CVE identifier or observed exploitation.

Wordfence · 14d agoVulnerability

[webapps] flyto-core 2.26.7 - Arbitrary File Write

flyto-core 2.26.7 has an arbitrary file write vulnerability with a public proof-of-concept exploit on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB listing 52655 discloses an arbitrary file write vulnerability in flyto-core version 2.26.7. A proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The listing provides no CVE identifier and no indication of active exploitation; arbitrary file writes can potentially enable code execution depending on write locations.

Exploit-DB · 29d agoExploit / PoC

ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models

ActionSplice enables in-flight action editing in chunk-autoregressive video world models via a lightweight corrector, avoiding rollback or waiting for the next chunk.

ActionSplice is an inference framework that formulates in-flight action editing for chunk-autoregressive video world models as Counterfactual State Transport (CST), where a lightweight corrector transports the interrupted backbone-native representation toward the matched state induced by the revised action. The world model and sampler remain frozen, and sampling resumes without replaying completed evaluations. Across minWM-Wan Action2V and HY-WM1.5, the retargeting variant CST-R reduces rollback-relative LPIPS by 61.5% and 75.9% versus direct condition swapping, while the temporal-splicing variant CST-T reduces suffix LPIPS by 56.1% and 77.5% with 2.73x and 1.69x pixel-ready speedups over waiting.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research

WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress will automatically scan every plugin release and block high-risk updates from distribution using AI analysis plus Jetpack Scan.

WordPress announced automated security reviews for every plugin release during its cooldown period before distribution through the WordPress.org update API, combining AI models with Jetpack Scan into a security score. The system already caught a backdoor committed to a plugin with about 20,000 active installations on July 28, 2026, blocking it within 26 minutes of a Wordfence alert. Flagged patterns include missing capability checks, unsafe $wpdb queries, unserialize() on request data, and obfuscated code.

The Hacker News · 1d agoTools

Wordfence Argus Finds Critical Authentication Bypass in WPMU DEV Dashboard Plugin

Wordfence researchers disclosed a critical unauthenticated authentication bypass in the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin, enabling admin takeover and possible RCE.

During internal research on August 19, 2026, Wordfence discovered an authentication bypass in the WPMU DEV Dashboard WordPress plugin, which has roughly 350,000 active installations. Unauthenticated attackers can gain administrator access when Hub Single-Sign On is enabled, enabling complete site takeover. If an administrator-writable code mechanism such as the plugin or theme editor is available, the flaw can lead to remote code execution.

Wordfence · 19d agoVulnerability

datasette-publish-fly 1.4

Datasette-publish-fly 1.4 sets force_https in fly.toml, fixes a volume detection bug, and adds support for app-scoped Fly deploy tokens.

Version 1.4 of the datasette-publish-fly plugin for deploying Datasette to Fly.io has been released. It sets force_https=true in fly.toml, fixes a 'Volume could not be found' bug, and adds compatibility with app-scoped deploy tokens. No security vulnerabilities are mentioned in the release notes.

Simon Willison · 5d agoTools1

Saving Jet Fuel

Tutorial optimizes flight paths to cut jet fuel costs using open-source Scikit-decide planning framework and OpenAP aircraft performance models.

A technical walkthrough demonstrates wind-aware flight path optimization using Scikit-decide, an open-source framework for reinforcement learning and automated planning, paired with OpenAP fuel-consumption models built by Dr. Junzi Sun at TU Delft and NOAA wind data. A Boeing 787-9 flying EWR to FCO can require roughly $68K in fuel, and adjusted routing could save thousands. The post uses Python 3.12, DuckDB with spatial extensions, and QGIS for map rendering.

Hacker News · AI · 15h agoAI tools & infraHN 45↑ · 19 comments

Critical GiveWP Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands on WordPress Servers

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.

Security Affairs · 16d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-82222

[webapps] flyto_core 2.26.7 - Server-Side Request Forgery

Exploit-DB published a server-side request forgery proof of concept for flyto_core 2.26.7.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept for server-side request forgery affecting flyto_core version 2.26.7. SSRF flaws can allow attackers to make arbitrary requests from the server toward internal resources. No CVE id is cited and no in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

Wordfence Argus Identifies Two Critical Unauthenticated Vulnerability Chains Leading to Remote Code Execution in The Events Calendar Plugin

Wordfence Argus found two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerability chains in The Events Calendar WordPress plugin, active on over 600,000 sites.

Wordfence Argus identified two independent critical vulnerability chains in The Events Calendar WordPress plugin on August 21-22, 2026. Both chains originate in the plugin's widget-rendering pipeline and can lead to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via two separate methods. The plugin is active on more than 600,000 websites.

Wordfence · 1d agoVulnerability

WordPress wp2shell Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2026 ...

Public exploit code emerged for the WordPress wp2shell pre-auth RCE chain (CVE-2026-63030, CVE-2026-60137); CISA set a July 24 patching deadline.

CVE-2026-63030 (REST API batch-route confusion) chained with CVE-2026-60137 (SQL injection in WP_Query's author__not_in) enables pre-authentication RCE in WordPress core, affecting versions 6.8.0-7.0.1. Multiple researchers published working PoCs on GitHub that extract password hashes, crack admin credentials, and upload malicious plugins. CISA added both CVEs to its KEV catalog with a July 24, 2026 deadline, and WordPress.org enabled forced auto-updates; fixes shipped in 6.8.6, 6.9.5, and 7.0.2.

Web discovery (articles for new exploits & KEV entries) · 9d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-63030CVE-2026-60137

WordPress Blocks High-Risk Plugin Releases With New AI-Powered Automated Security Review

WordPress.org now runs AI-powered automated security reviews on every plugin release, automatically blocking high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

WordPress launched an automated security review that combines multiple AI models and Jetpack Scan during a six-hour cooldown to score each plugin release; updates above the blocking threshold are automatically held back from the WordPress.org update API. The change follows a July 28 incident where a backdoor added to a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations was detected during cooldown and never delivered; the Plugins Team removed it 26 minutes after a Wordfence notification. Blocked developers receive an email with findings and are advised to publish a corrected version rather than await manual appeal.

GBHackersupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoTools 7 sources1

Case study: ManageWP Blocks 11.9M+ Threats in 6 Months with Patchstack

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.

Patchstack · 22d agoIndustry

Wordfence Argus Finds Complex 6 Step Critical RCE in Avada Theme with 1 Million Sales

Wordfence's AI-assisted Argus found a six-step critical RCE chain in the Avada WordPress theme, which has more than one million sales.

Wordfence reports that its Argus research uncovered a complex six-step exploit chain yielding critical remote code execution in the Avada WordPress theme, one of the best-selling themes with over one million sales. The company also notes AI-assisted submissions to its bug bounty program grew from 16% to roughly two-thirds of all reports in recent months. Sites running Avada should apply the patched release.

Wordfence · 21d agoVulnerability

OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

OpenWAM releases an open modular stack for world-action model pretraining, plus OpenWAM-alpha trained on about 6,400 hours of egocentric and robot data.

OpenWAM is an open research stack that factorizes World-Action Model pretraining into composable infrastructure, study, and model components with unified training, inference, and evaluation. Controlled experiments distill three principles on knowledge inheritance, world-action synergy, and out-of-domain generalization gains from embodied co-training. The resulting OpenWAM-alpha, pretrained on roughly 6,400 hours of egocentric human and robot data, achieves top-tier results across eight simulation benchmarks and real-robot tests spanning single-arm, bimanual, and dexterous embodiments. The full stack, including infrastructure, evaluation protocols, pretrained models, and data recipes, is released openly.

Hugging Face daily papers · 9d agoAI research

In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review

SecurityWeek weekly roundup covers exploited WordPress Super Forms flaw CVE-2026-14894, a $10M bounty on an Iranian cyber official, InjectEave attacks, and more.

SecurityWeek's weekly roundup aggregates short items across the threat landscape, including Microsoft's report of invisible Unicode tag characters used in financial phishing lures at up to 2.37 million messages per day, and active exploitation of critical WordPress Super Forms plugin flaw CVE-2026-14894 to deploy PHP webshells. Policy items include a $10 million US bounty for IRGC-CEC Cyber Operations Command lead Amir Yaryab, a 16-month prison sentence for ex-AT&T employee Kenneth Carter over SIM swaps with nearly $600,000 in intended losses, and the US arraignment of Russian Sergei Anatolyevich Filimonov over credential harvesting. Technical items include InjectEave electromagnetic side-channel attacks tested on 11 devices, an FBI warning on OAuth consent phishing, and VulnCheck's finding that only 202 of 26,153 Anthropic Project Glasswing findings were fixed.

SecurityWeek · 5d agoIndustry in the wildCVE-2026-148942

$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLC

Forescout used Claude to port a WAGO PLC exploit for $536 in 8 hours, and an AI-generated payload later permanently bricked the test device.

Forescout researchers used Claude Code with Ghidra, terminal access, and physical hardware to port CVE-2021-31886, a pre-authentication buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server, from a WAGO 750-852 PLC to the WAGO 750-831 without source code or debugger access. The final RCE development stage cost $535.74 in API fees over an 8-hour, 32-minute session (2.6k input and 1.3M output tokens) and required heavy researcher guidance. Claude produced working ICMP and UDP beacon exploits in 12 minutes after identifying that normal FTP command completion was overwriting its shellcode, fixed by omitting the CRLF terminator. A follow-up session extending the payloads toward a C2 implant wrote to flash-mapped memory and permanently bricked the PLC, underscoring the risks of autonomous agents operating against physical infrastructure.

Security Affairs · 14d agoResearchCVE-2021-318861

Update modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe.rb

Rapid7 updated a Metasploit auxiliary scanner module that detects XML external entity injection in Elasticsearch via Apache Tika.

A commit in the Metasploit Framework updated modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe.rb, an auxiliary scanner module. The module targets XML external entity (XXE) injection in Elasticsearch through Apache Tika, and was co-authored by jheysel-r7. The terse commit message contains no additional details, CVE references, or exploitation notes.

Metasploit Framework commits · 7d agoTools

Metasploit Wrap Up: Lot of summer shells and fit http profiles

Metasploit 6.5 ships 13 new modules including RCEs for SonicWall SMA1000, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE and Langflow, plus a Linux kernel LPE.

Rapid7's Metasploit wrap-up covers the 6.5 release, which adds 13 new modules, including remote code execution exploits for WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard and a Pix-for-WooCommerce plugin. The Fragnesia Linux kernel local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-46300) also landed. The release introduces HTTP malleable profiles, MCP functionality, Linux multi-fetch payloads and improved Windows on ARM support.

Rapid7 Blog · Aug 14, 2026ToolsCVE-2026-46300

Boost Engagement with Free Passkeys by Wordfence

Wordfence 9 introduces free passkey support, letting WordPress users log in without passwords and reducing authentication friction.

Wordfence announced that version 9 of its WordPress security plugin introduces passkeys. The feature removes the need for users to remember or copy passwords from a manager. Wordfence is offering the passkey capability for free.

Wordfence · 18h agoTools

CVE-2026-67211: Apache OpenNLP: OOM DoS via Unbounded Array Allocation in SymSpellModelSerializer

Apache OpenNLP CVE-2026-67211: unbounded map pre-sizing in SymSpellModelSerializer enables out-of-memory denial of service in opennlp-symspell 3.0.0-M4/M5.

CVE-2026-67211 affects the opennlp-symspell artifact in versions 3.0.0-M4 and 3.0.0-M5 only. The SymSpellModelSerializer.create() method performs unbounded map pre-sizing, allowing crafted input to trigger out-of-memory denial of service. Releases 1.x and 2.x are unaffected because the spellcheck extension was introduced in 3.0.0-M4; the issue is resolved in 3.0.0-M6.

oss-security · 4d agoVulnerability 2 sourcesCVE-2026-67211

World in World: Explore the World with World Models

World in World is a training-free inference-time interface enabling camera-controlled rerendering, long-horizon revisiting, and motion transfer with frozen causal video world models.

The framework converts heterogeneous control evidence into camera- and time-labelled clean visual states that are read through the native self-attention of a frozen causal video model. Evidence includes source-video observations, target-view scene projections, geometry renderings for completing newly exposed regions, and retrieved generated states beyond the rolling cache. A correspondence router combines persistent point identities with geometry for token correspondences, while evidence-wise attention CFG independently regulates each auxiliary channel. The shared interface supports camera-controlled rerendering, long-horizon revisiting, and human-motion transfer without additional training.

Hugging Face daily papers · 6d agoAI research

[webapps] Blocksy Companion 2.1.46 - RCE

Public RCE exploit published for Blocksy Companion 2.1.46, a popular WordPress plugin by CreativeThemes.

Exploit-DB entry 52640 documents a remote code execution vulnerability in Blocksy Companion version 2.1.46, a widely installed WordPress page-building plugin. A public exploit allows attackers to achieve code execution on sites running the vulnerable plugin version. Administrators should verify the installed version and update if a patched release is available.

Exploit-DB · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

TrendAI and CHT Security used an AI pipeline to find over 300 verified WordPress plugin zero-days at roughly $20 per vulnerability.

A pipeline built in three days by TrendAI and CHT Security, presented at Ekoparty Miami, paired AI-driven static analysis with automated Docker provisioning and Chrome DevTools MCP dynamic verification to surface more than 300 critical zero-days in WordPress plugins within 72 hours. The run consumed about 222 million tokens across 95 tasks, averaging roughly $20 per verified vulnerability, with findings including pre-auth RCE, SQL injection, privilege escalation, SSRF, and an AI-assembled downgrade attack chain. Dynamic verification eliminated over 80% of false positives, but manual review at 30-60 minutes per finding remains the bottleneck, straining ZDI and NIST triage backlogs.

Help Net Security · 23d agoResearch1

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 17, 2026 to August 23, 2026)

Wordfence logged 240 disclosed vulnerabilities across 184 WordPress plugins and 17 themes for the week of August 17-23, 2026.

Wordfence's weekly WordPress vulnerability report for August 17-23, 2026 added 240 vulnerabilities to its Intelligence Vulnerability Database, affecting 184 plugins and 17 themes. 105 vulnerability researchers contributed during the period. WordPress administrators are advised to review the list to check whether their sites use affected components.

Wordfence · 19d agoVulnerability