WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

Threat actors attempted to exploit a high-severity remote code execution flaw in WordPress Core nearly 63,000 times in 24 hours, The Hacker News reports. The flaw, which has no CVE identifier and carries a CVSS score of 8.1, affects WordPress Core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3, and patches were released on October 28.