200,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in Perfmatters WordPress Plugin
On March 1st, 2026, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in Perfmatters, a WordPress plugin with more than 200,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated threat actors to delete arbitrary files, including the wp-config.php file
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