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Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated Admin Takeover on 150K Sites

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-8206, CVSS 9.8) was disclosed affecting the Kirki Freeform Page Builder, Website Builder & Customizer plugin for WordPress, allowing attackers to take over administrator accounts via a flawed password reset mechanism. Due to the potential for full site compromise and confirmed active exploitation, immediate patching is required. Technical Root Cause The issue …

  • June 02, 2026
  • By The Orca Research Pod

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CVE-2026-23226: How a Missing Lock in ksmbd’s Channel List Exposes Your Linux SMB3 Server

Overview The Orca Security Research Pod discovered a use-after-free race condition in the Linux kernel’s ksmbd SMB3 server. When two connections share a session over SMB3 multichannel, the kernel can read a freed channel struct – exposing the per-channel AES-128-CMAC signing key and causing a kernel panic. An attacker needs valid SMB credentials and network …

  • April 08, 2026
  • By Igor Stepansky
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Pickle in the Pipeline: Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in SGLang’s LLM Serving Framework

  • March 11, 2026
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Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day May Impact Enterprise, Developer, and Automation Environments

  • February 23, 2026
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RoguePilot: Exploiting GitHub Copilot for a Repository Takeover

  • February 16, 2026
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Hacking GitHub Codespaces via VS Code Defaults: A Supply-Chain Attack Vector

  • February 04, 2026
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