Five Critical Word Press Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

Summary: Wordfence and Patchstack disclosed critical flaws in the WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP WordPress plugins and themes that could enable authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. Patchstack said CVE-2026-82222 in GiveWP chains a broken "safe unserialize" helper, a donation flow that feeds it attacker-controlled data, and a gadget chain in shipped code to turn PHP object injection into remote code execution.
What's compelling: Patchstack attributes the root causes to trusting a serialization sanitizer that does not strip objects, unserializing database data as if trusted, and shipping development-only libraries into production - patterns that recur across plugin codebases, so the next vulnerable plugin may already be installed on your site.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
Mentions: CVE-2026-82222
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