U.S. CISA adds WordPress flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds WordPress flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a WordPress flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-119977 (CVSS score of 8.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
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- ConceptKEV · Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogCISA's list of vulnerabilities with evidence of real-world exploitation.
- ConceptCVSS · Common Vulnerability Scoring SystemA 0–10 score for how severe a vulnerability is in theory.
- 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.
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