{
  "id": 589992,
  "title": "Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/researchers-disclose-ai-assisted-sharepoint-exploit-chain-reaching",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T16:47:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/researchers-disclose-ai-assisted.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server 2016. Microsoft's",
  "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."
}