{"id":4829,"date":"2025-06-23T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/wordpress-motors-theme-flaw-mass-exploited-to-hijack-admin-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:03:46","slug":"wordpress-motors-theme-flaw-mass-exploited-to-hijack-admin-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/wordpress-motors-theme-flaw-mass-exploited-to-hijack-admin-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts<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 exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme &#8220;Motors&#8221; to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. [&#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\/wordpress-motors-theme-flaw-mass-exploited-to-hijack-admin-accounts\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme &#8220;Motors&#8221; to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. [&#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-4829","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\/4829"}],"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=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}