{"id":241325,"date":"2026-07-22T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/critical-wp2shell-wordpress-flaws-exploited-to-install-webshells"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:52:55","slug":"critical-wp2shell-wordpress-flaws-exploited-to-install-webshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/critical-wp2shell-wordpress-flaws-exploited-to-install-webshells","title":{"rendered":"Critical wp2shell WordPress flaws exploited to install webshells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/critical-wp2shell-wordpress-flaws-exploited-to-install-webshells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are exploiting the \u201cwp2shell\u201d critical vulnerability suite (CVE-2026\u201363030 and CVE-2026\u201360137) affecting WordPress Core to deploy persistent webshells and install malicious plugins on affected servers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/wordpress-core-wp2shell-rce-flaws-get-public-exploits-patch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">critical exploit chain<\/a> abuses the WordPress REST API\u2019s batch-processing feature, allowing remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable installations without the need to authenticate.<\/p>\n<p>Although the technical details were not released, proof-of-concept exploits started to emerge over the weekend, shortly after threat intelligence and cyber risk management company SearchLight Cyber disclosed the wp2shell security issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are exploiting the \u201cwp2shell\u201d critical vulnerability suite (CVE-2026\u201363030 and CVE-2026\u201360137) affecting WordPress Core to deploy persistent webshells and install malicious plugins on affected servers. The critical exploit chain abuses the WordPress REST API\u2019s batch-processing feature, allowing remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable installations without the need to authenticate. Although the technical details were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}