'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover | HappeningNow.news

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'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover

Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet.

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The recent exploitation of vulnerabilities in the WP2Shell plugin has exposed millions of WordPress sites to potential remote takeover. This development is significant because it highlights the rapid exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities by malicious actors.

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