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Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites
2024-04-26 05:49

Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to 3.9.2.0. "This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a severe threat as


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Wordpress 49 36 410 104 29 579
Plugin 2 0 13 0 0 13