Attackers Actively Probing for Upgrade-Window RCE Vulnerability in WordPress Core

Reported by Wordfence (István Márton)

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Nov 2026, 16:52 CET

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On October 28th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released WordPress 7.1.4, along with backported security releases for older branches, addressing several security issues, most notably an Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in WordPress core, identified as CVE-2026-119977.

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