CVE-2025-54352

CVE-2025-54352 affects WordPress 3.5–6.8.2 and enables remote disclosure of private/draft post titles via pingback.ping XML-RPC requests. A PoC on GitHub demonstrates retrieving the title after sending a pingback to a crafted post. The provided sources confirm the vulnerability but do not specify...

162,000 WordPress Sites Used in DDoS Attack

More than 162,000 “popular and clean” WordPress sites were recently used in a large-scale distributed denial of service attack DDoS that exploited the content management system’s pingback feature. While the WordPress team is aware of the issue it’s not expected to be patched as it’s a default...