{
  "id": 17258828,
  "title": "WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/wordpress-rce-flaw-draws-nearly-63-000-attack-attempts-in-just-24",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-30T14:08:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/wordpress-rce-flaw-draws-nearly-63000.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress Core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 on the CVSS scoring system. Patches for the flaw were released on October",
  "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."
}