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Infosec · shubs.io · Wednesday, 19 August 2026

GPT 5.6 Sol finds a pre-auth WordPress RCE. Frontier vuln-hunting just leapfrogged

Assetnote researcher Adam Kues used GPT 5.6 Sol to find wp2shell, a pre-auth RCE in WordPress Core affecting roughly 40% of the internet, a capability output tenfold beyond earlier frontier models that still needed heavy human steering. The co-founder calls it a step-change in frontier-class vulnerability discovery, and says it's getting worse before it maybe gets better.

Read the source: shubs.io ↗In the 19 August issue →