{
  "id": 4239130,
  "title": "Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and-theme-flaws-enable-site-takeover",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-29T16:25:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below - CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass flaw in",
  "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."
}