hpr4731 :: A Website Hacked

About an encounter with wp2shell that was not so bad

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Privacy and Security.

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[WP2Shell is] a pre-authentication RCE in WordPress Core . The attack has no preconditions and can be exploited by an anonymous user in a stock install of WordPress with no plugins.

- from wp2shell.com

Wordpress.org - https://en-gb.wordpress.org/

Searchlight WP2Shell Website - https://wp2shell.com/

CVE-2026-63030 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63030

CVE-2026-60137 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60137

OpenSSH - https://www.openssh.org/

FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org/

GNU Tar - https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=tar

GZip - https://www.gzip.org/


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