Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Websites to Authentication Bypass Attacks

A critical vulnerability in a widely used WordPress plugin has exposed over 200,000 websites to full account takeover, raising urgent concerns across the security community. Discovered on May 8, 2026, by Wordfence’s AI-powered PRISM threat intelligence platform, the flaw affects the Burst Statistics plugin, a privacy-focused analytics tool. Tracked as CVE-2026-8181 with a CVSS score […]

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