WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts

Published on June 21, 2025

Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme "Motors" to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. [...]

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