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WordPress 7.0 Ships AI Agent Infrastructure: API Key Theft Risk Surfaces on Launch Day

WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong," released May 20, 2026, arrived without the real-time collaborative editing feature that had been its stated centerpiece for months — and within two days of launch, a security researcher was warning that the AI infrastructure it shipped in place of that feature has given hackers a new category of target: paid API credentials worth thousands of dollars now stored in WordPress admin dashboards across 43% of the web.
by Richard L. Wells
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