Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core

“Pre-Authentication” and “Unauthenticated” are meaningfully different things, and for the purposes of marketing reach you always want to push for “Unauthenticated” if possible.

Typically Pre-Authenticated means knowing some additional contextual information such as the userID or something like that is required for exploitation, but actual authentication is not required. The impact is limited by how easy it is to know that pre-authentication information, which remains unknown.

WordPress is an abomination. It hasn’t been a blogging platform for a long time now. It's a poor man's website that tries to do everything.

The developers are too busy stroking their ego rather than building a great platform. The plugins are a cesspool. Every single one now comes with tens of notifications and flashing messages all over the admin area, trying to upsell you on a premium version that is an annual subscription. At its core, WP data storage is poorly done (postmeta, usermeta) and cannot guarantee atomicity, meaning it should never be used for things like commerce.

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