{
  "id": 9104332,
  "title": "WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/wordpress-comment2shell-flaw-can-turn-anonymous-comment-xss-into-rce",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T06:03:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/wordpress-comment2shell-flaw-can-turn.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and dubbed \"Comment2Shell,\" on September 17 in version 7.1.1 and told site owners to update right away. There is",
  "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."
}