Q3 2025’s most exploited WordPress vulnerabilities and how R...

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• Blog URL: https://patchstack.com/articles/q3-2025s-most-exploited-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-patchstacks-rapidmitigate-blocked-them/
• Blog Title: Q3 2025’s most exploited WordPress vulnerabilities and how RapidMitigate blocked them
• Suggested Section: Pentesting Web > CMS Pentesting > WordPress > Plugin Vulnerabilities (REST API auth bypass & nonce misuse, SQLi via 's', LFI via template path)

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Post: Published September 30, 2025. A technical review of actively exploited WordPress plugin vulnerabilities in Q3 2025 and how Patchstack’s application-layer virtual patching (RapidMitigate) blocked them in real time. Patchstack previously measured that 87.8% of real-world WordPress exploit attempts bypassed common host-level defenses, emphasizing the need for application-layer, WordPress-aware rules while sites are updated.
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Original Blog Post: https://patchstack.com/articles/q3-2025s-most-exploited-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-patchstacks-rapidmitigate-blocked-them/

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