A $25 Prompt Found a $500,000 WordPress Exploit — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #77
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| MONDAY, JULY 20, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 77 · 20 STORIES |
| Lead · AI & Security |
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Exploit Brokers Pay $500,000 for a WordPress RCE. A Researcher Found One With $25 of GPT-5.6.
A Searchlight Cyber researcher used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to find a pre-authentication remote code execution bug in WordPress, the class of vulnerability brokers advertise six figures for, for roughly the cost of lunch. The model chained an exploitation path human auditors had walked past. |
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