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Vulnerabilities 2026-11-04 · 6 d ago Source: The Hacker News

CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades

CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades

Summary

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw in WordPress Core to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-119977 (CVSS score: 8.1), is a case of Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code

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