An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25
An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25. Attackers Weaponized the Patch in Ninety Minutes. by Natalia Nowak · August 7, 2026 · Security · 8 min read WordPress released 7.0.3 on August 6, a security release the core team recommends installing immediately. Its headline entry is a pre-auth reflected cross-site scripting flaw on the login screen that can lead to PHP code execution, reported by the team at pwn.ai and tracked as CVE-2026-64638.
- ▪An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25.
- ▪Attackers Weaponized the Patch in Ninety Minutes. by Natalia Nowak · August 7, 2026 · Security · 8 min read WordPress released 7.0.3 on August 6, a security release the core team recommends installing immediately.
- ▪Its headline entry is a pre-auth reflected cross-site scripting flaw on the login screen that can lead to PHP code execution, reported by the team at pwn.ai and tracked as CVE-2026-64638.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | webhosting.today |
| Canonical URL | https://webhosting.today/2026/08/07/an-ai-model-found-the-wordpress-flaw-in-ten-hours-for-25-attackers-weaponized-the-patch-in-ninety-minutes/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:53:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-07T14:05:44.990Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-07T14:05:44.990Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rzFjE12OrZRE · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25. Attackers Weaponized the Patch in Ninety Minutes. by Natalia Nowak · August 7, 2026 · Security · 8 min read WordPress released 7.0.3 on August 6, a security release the core team recommends installing immediately. Its headline entry is a pre-auth reflected cross-site scripting flaw on the login screen that can lead to PHP code execution, reported by the team at pwn.ai and tracked as CVE-2026-64638. It is the second such release in three weeks, and the two numbers that bracket the first one matter more than either release.
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