Attackers Actively Probing for Upgrade-Window RCE Vulnerability in WordPress Core

On October 28th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released WordPress 7.1.4, along with backported security releases for older branches, addressing several security issues, most notably an Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in WordPress core, identified as CVE-2026-119977. The vulnerability affects WordPress core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3 and can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to execute…

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CVE-2026-119083 - GluonTS arbitrary file write during archive extraction

Bulletin ID: 2026-171-AWS Publication Date: 11/05/2026 08:30 AM PST Description: GluonTS is an open-source Python library for probabilistic time series modeling. We identified CVE-2026-119083, an issue in the archive extraction utility in GluonTS before 0.17.0. An actor who supplies a crafted tar archive containing symbolic or hard links might be able to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory…

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Vulnerability Scans for Older Cisco IOS Vulnerability / Opt-Out Headers, (Thu, Nov 5th)

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