{"id":12897,"date":"2026-05-15T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:04:17","slug":"hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-exploit-auth-bypass-flaw-in-burst-statistics-wordpress-plugin\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin Hackers are leveraging a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Burst Statistics to obtain admin-level access to websites. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}