CISA flags WordPress RCE flaw as actively exploited in attacks
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies that attackers have started exploiting a recently patched high-severity WordPress vulnerability in the wild. [...]
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- AttackRemote code execution · RCEA flaw that lets an attacker run their own code on someone else's machine over the network.
- ConceptCISA · Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security AgencyThe US government's cybersecurity agency, which issues alerts and runs the KEV catalog.
- ConceptExploitCode or a technique that turns a software flaw into something an attacker can actually use.
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