{
  "id": 8277478,
  "title": "New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/new-wordpress-click2shell-flaw-forces-theme-installs-can-chain-to",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T16:56:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-wordpress-click2shell-flaw-forces.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only",
  "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."
}