{"id":683,"date":"2024-04-26T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin-bug-to-create-admin-accounts-on-wordpress-sites\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:12:14","slug":"hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin-bug-to-create-admin-accounts-on-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin-bug-to-create-admin-accounts-on-wordpress-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP\u2011Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers.<br \/>\nThe shortcoming, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin\u00a0prior to\u00a03.9.2.0.<br \/>\n&#8220;This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a severe threat as\u00a0Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP\u2011Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers.<br \/>\nThe shortcoming, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin\u00a0prior to\u00a03.9.2.0.<br \/>\n&#8220;This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a severe threat as\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP\u2011Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin\u00a0prior to\u00a03.9.2.0. &#8220;This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/hackers-exploiting-wp-automatic-plugin-bug-to-create-admin-accounts-on-wordpress-sites\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}