In a recent cybersecurity development, over 50,000 WordPress websites using the Uncanny Automator plugin have been identified as vulnerable to a critical privilege escalation attack. This vulnerability, discovered by security researcher mikemyers through the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program, allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. […]

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