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Vulnerabilities & PatchesEmerging1 sourceSep 22, 2026 · 06:03via The Hacker News

WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session

Brief

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server.

WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and called "Comment2Shell," on September 17 in version 7.

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