Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE
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Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been identified in popular WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication, escalate privileges, steal sensitive data, or achieve remote code execution. The most severe of these, CVE-2026-82222 in the GiveWP plugin, enables arbitrary command execution through a PHP object injection chain involving unsafe unserialization and a gadget chain in shipped code. These flaws affect specific versions of the plugins and themes when certain configurations are enabled, posing significant risk to WordPress sites if left unpatched.
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