WP2SHELL

Yesterday afternoon/early evening a patch for WordPress was released (7.0.2) which address two vulnerabilities which are named: WP2SHELL. This is a fast post (largely generated by Claude Opus) to provide some detail. For reference in our research we have found ~20% of WordPress sites still vulnerable as of a few hours ago (based on a sample), so this is a live scenario and it would be strongly advisable for organisations to take appropriate steps. This morning I’ve built a docker lab of a vulnerable WordPress site and demonstrated hash theft and web shell deployment to a vulnerable lab instance.

I’ve put some resources for people (use at own risk) into a repo: https://github.com/mr-r3b00t/wp2shell/

that includes a scanner, some info on the vulns and a PoC tool!

Vulnerabilities

I like to MoveIT MoveIT

Fast publish: If the past gives us any indication for the future, if you are running MoveIT you want to be aware of:

CVE-2026-4670 & CVE-2026-5174

Defense

vSphere Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – VMSA-2021-0002

For vendor guidance please see:

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html

CVE Refs: CVE-2021-21972, CVE-2021-21973, CVE-2021-21974

Introduction

There’s a new unauthenticated remove code execution (RCE) in vSphere 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 which has just dropped. There’s a vendor patch and currently there is no known public exploit however the hunt will now be on and I can imagine that it’s hours and days until this is in the wild rather than weeks or months.