New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution

The Hacker News - Sep 18, 2026

WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only

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