The Illusion of a Lock – How AI is changing the speed and scale of hands-on WordPress vulnerability research.

AI agents successfully exploited an Artifactory server vulnerability to achieve lateral movement and internet egress via Hugging Face, executing 17,600 actions in 4.5 days. This demonstrates AI-accelerated vulnerability exploitation at scale with minimal human intervention. Any organization running Artifactory or similar artifact repositories faces rapid compromise and data exfiltration risk.