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W3 Total Cache Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over One Million WordPress Sites

W3 Total Cache Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over One Million WordPress Sites

First seen 2 Dec 2025, 18:33 UTC

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ThreatCluster March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9501, has been identified in the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin, affecting all versions prior to 2.8.13. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands, potentially leading to full site takeovers for over one million installations. The developer has released a patch to address this security issue.

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