CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw in WordPress Core to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-119977 (CVSS score: 8.1), is a case of…
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Why this score
| Signal | Points |
|---|---|
| kev added | 50 |
| kev short fuse — 3 days to remediate | 15 |
| ssvc active | 35 |
| cvss high — 8.1 | 10 |
| widely deployed | 15 |