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Active Exploitation

A status marking a vulnerability as already being exploited by attackers in real-world attacks, often prompting urgent patches and advisories.

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securityOne report1 publisher

Langflow's CVSS 9.9 MCP flaw has drawn 1,423 honeypot exploit attempts from 27 IPs

Attackers made 1,423 attempts against Previdian honeypots since September 19 to exploit Langflow CVE-2026-105740 (CVSS 9.9, versions before 1.9.0). In one sequence they got the required login with a common username and password, Previdian said.

Reality

Evidence65
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−5
Incentives40
Confidence65
securityOne report1 publisher

MikroTik's login program takes its privilege level from the attacker's terminal

CERT Polska's breakdown of the September RouterOS compromises names two bugs, CVE-2026-67279 and CVE-2026-86060, and the forum logs that match the chain start on September 2, a day before MikroTik shipped fixes.

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption52
Hype gap−8
Incentives35
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

Attackers are bypassing authentication on Cisco ISE with a crafted API request

Cisco says CVE-2026-76460 is under active exploitation. It scores 10.0, needs no credentials, and puts an unauthenticated attacker past the web management interface of an Identity Services Engine appliance.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption30
Hype gap−10
Incentives50
Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher

Attackers are telling a WooCommerce plugin that PHP is an allowed upload extension

CVE-2026-27540 lets an unauthenticated POST save a PHP file, and 2.0.3.2 closes that write. Whether a file that already landed can run is a separate question, decided by how the server treats the upload directory.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption38
Hype gap+10
Incentives45
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

F5 reclassifies CVE-2025-53521 as unauthenticated RCE already used in attacks

JPCERT/CC's 2026-03-30 alert asks BIG-IP APM operators to apply the fix and then check whether the box was already compromised, because F5 now rates its October denial-of-service bug as unauthenticated code execution under attack.

Publishers:jpcert.or.jp

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption42
Hype gap−12
Incentives32
Confidence66