Attackers have found a way to escalate the benign WordPress REST API flaw and use it to gain full access to a victim's server by installing a hidden backdoor.

The REST API is enabled by default on all sites using WordPress 4.7.0 or 4.7.1. If you are running these versions of the CMS, you are vulnerable to this attack. However, if you have automatic ...

A WordPress core maintainer said the company delayed disclosing the vulnerability, technically an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that existed in a REST API endpoint, to ...