{
  "id": 1550074,
  "title": "Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/forminator-wordpress-flaw-can-enable-unauthenticated-rce-via",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-17T18:22:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/forminator-wordpress-flaw-can-enable.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias \"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}