WordPress 7.1.4 Patches Unauthenticated Upgrade-Window RCE; Exploitation Attempts Detected After Release

Reported by Wordfence (Alex Thomas)

Summary by Cyber Security News29 Oct 2026, 22:58 CET

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TL;DR: WordPress 7.1.4 was released on October 28, 2026. According to WordPress, it includes fixes for 22 security vulnerabilities. The most serious is an unauthenticated race condition in the Core update process that can lead to remote code execution.

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