{"id":9619,"date":"2026-08-29T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and-theme-flaws-enable-site-takeover-or-rce\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:14:43","slug":"five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and-theme-flaws-enable-site-takeover-or-rce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and-theme-flaws-enable-site-takeover-or-rce\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMultiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>  CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) &#8211; An authentication bypass flaw in\u00a0Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>  CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) &#8211; An authentication bypass flaw in\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMultiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below &#8211; CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) &#8211; An authentication bypass flaw in\u00a0Multiple critical&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/five-critical-wordpress-plugin-and-theme-flaws-enable-site-takeover-or-rce\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9620,"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\/9619"}],"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=9619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}