As defenders patch vulnerabilities in production environments, threat actors continually adapt to exploit new weaknesses, sometimes for financial gain and sometimes to disrupt operations. In this blog, we'll explore how attackers can escalate privileges via a web GUI and ultimately obtain shell access by exploiting a recently disclosed WordPress vulnerability, CVE-2025-2563 . We'll walk through the attack chain from an attacker’s perspective against a practice (non-production

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