WordPress Woes: Hackers Hijack Sites with Alone Theme Vulnerability
Hackers are as busy as bees, exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Alone WordPress theme. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-5394, allows attackers to hijack sites faster than you can say “plugin installation.” WordPress site admins, update your Alone theme now, or risk your site becoming a hacker’s playground!
Hot Take:
WordPress sites are under siege once again! It seems hackers just couldn’t resist the allure of a theme called “Alone”—the irony is palpable. While charity may begin at home, apparently, so does hacking! If you’re using the “Alone” WordPress theme, you might want to stop feeling so… alone and patch that vulnerability faster than you can say “CVE-2025-5394”.
Key Points:
- A critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2025-5394, in the Alone WordPress theme is being actively exploited.
- This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files and execute remote code for site takeover.
- Over 9,000 installations of the Alone theme are potentially affected.
- Wordfence has blocked more than 120,900 exploit attempts since the flaw was patched.
- Affected users should update the theme to version 7.8.5 and scan for suspicious activity.
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