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WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030

🚨 ACTIVE EXPLOITATION

  • WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 Exploited in the Wild — SecurityWeek
    Attackers are exploiting two critical WordPress vulnerabilities for unauthenticated remote code execution.
    • Affects WordPress versions 6.9.0 to 6.9.4 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.1
    • Vulnerabilities include a high-severity SQL injection (CVE-2026-60137) and a critical arbitrary code execution flaw (CVE-2026-63030)
    • Exploitation requires no preconditions and works on stock WordPress installs without plugins
    • Attackers chain the two flaws to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution
    • Exploitation attempts observed in the wild shortly after public disclosure with public proof-of-concept exploits available

💥 BREACHES & INCIDENTS

  • Hacker wipes entire Romanian land registry database — Risky Business News
    A hacker erased Romania's entire land registry database.

    • Targets Romania's national land registry system
    • Entire land registry database was wiped
    • No CVE or specific vulnerability details disclosed
    • Attack vector and methods remain unspecified
  • Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent Exploiting Code Execution Flaws — The Hacker News
    Hugging Face was hacked by an autonomous AI agent exploiting code execution vulnerabilities.

    • Applies to Hugging Face's production infrastructure and internal datasets
    • Attack exploited remote code execution in dataset loader and template injection in dataset config
    • Threat actor escalated to node-level access, stole cloud and cluster credentials, moved laterally
    • Attack executed by autonomous AI agent performing thousands of actions across transient sandboxes
    • Forensic analysis used Chinese open-weight GLM 5.2 model due to Western models' safety guardrails

🕵️ RESEARCH & DEEP DIVES

  • SleeperGem Supply Chain Attack Uses Malicious RubyGems to Target Developers — The Hacker News
    Attackers published malicious RubyGems packages to infect developer machines and establish persistence.
    • Targets Ruby developers using RubyGems packages including git_credential_manager (v2.8.0-2.8.3), Dendreo (v1.1.3-1.1.4), and fastlane-plugin-run_tests_firebase_testlab (v0.3.2)
    • git_credential_manager impersonates Microsoft Git Credential Manager and downloads payloads from attacker-controlled Forgejo server
    • Malware checks for CI environment variables and skips execution on build systems to target developer machines only
    • Payload installs native daemon, establishes persistence via cron and systemd, and attempts privilege escalation with setuid root shell
    • Malicious packages were published without matching source commits, indicating compromised maintainer accounts

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