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Cloudflare WAF Protects WordPress Applications From Two High

Cloudflare WAF Protects WordPress Applications From Two High

Ground.News • July 18, 2026

On July 17, 2026, WordPress dropped 7.0.2 to patch a chain of two vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-60137 (SQL injection) and CVE-2026-63030 (REST API batch route confusion → RCE). The chain is nicknamed WP2Shell. Chained together, on default installations with no plugins involved, it lets a remote attacker with no WordPress account reach full code execution. If you're running WordPress 6.8 through 7.0.1, you need to update right now. Not week. Ri…

The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. The vulnerabilities reported to the WordPress security team include: CVE-2026-60137 – A facilitated SQL injection issue reported as a team by TF1T, dtro, and haongo CVE-2026-60137 – A REST API batch-route confusion and SQL injection issue leading to Remote Code Execution reported by Adam Kues at Assetnote / Searchlight Cyber Which versions of WordPr…

Cloudflare has deployed new Web Application Firewall (WAF) protections for two critical vulnerabilities affecting WordPress. The protections address an Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in WordPress’s REST API and a related SQL Injection vulnerability. The WordPress security team disclosed the vulnerabilities to Cloudflare before public release so that we could prepare protections for customers. Cloudflare has deployed th…

Cloudflare has urgently deployed cloud-based WAF rules to block attacks targeting the high-risk remote code execution vulnerability in WordPress.

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