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Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability - SecurityWeek (www.securityweek.com)

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[–] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A high-severity vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup WordPress plugin exposes over 3 million websites to remote code execution (RCE) attacks

Probably a dumb question, but couldn’t they just use this exploit to remotely patch itself?

Edit; after a quick thought, I suppose Wordpress instances don’t phone home so Defiant has no idea who has a Wordpress instance running and who doesn’t.