{"id":775,"date":"2024-05-08T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/hackers-exploiting-litespeed-cache-bug-to-gain-full-control-of-wordpress-sites\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:20:48","slug":"hackers-exploiting-litespeed-cache-bug-to-gain-full-control-of-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/hackers-exploiting-litespeed-cache-bug-to-gain-full-control-of-wordpress-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploiting LiteSpeed Cache Bug to Gain Full Control of WordPress Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA high-severity flaw impacting\u00a0the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress\u00a0is being actively exploited by threat actors\u00a0to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0findings\u00a0come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability (CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3)\u00a0has\u00a0been leveraged\u00a0to set up bogus admin users with the names\u00a0wpsupp\u2011user\u00a0\u00a0A high-severity flaw impacting\u00a0the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress\u00a0is being actively exploited by threat actors\u00a0to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0findings\u00a0come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability (CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3)\u00a0has\u00a0been leveraged\u00a0to set up bogus admin users with the names\u00a0wpsupp\u2011user\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA high-severity flaw impacting\u00a0the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress\u00a0is being actively exploited by threat actors\u00a0to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites. The\u00a0findings\u00a0come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability (CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3)\u00a0has\u00a0been leveraged\u00a0to set up bogus admin users with the names\u00a0wpsupp\u2011user\u00a0\u00a0A high-severity flaw impacting\u00a0the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress\u00a0is being actively exploited by&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/hackers-exploiting-litespeed-cache-bug-to-gain-full-control-of-wordpress-sites\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploiting LiteSpeed Cache Bug to Gain Full Control of WordPress Sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":776,"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\/775"}],"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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}