Weekly Website Trends: WordPress Admin-Takeover CVE, Shopify in ChatGPT, AI Mode Hits 93% Zero-Click
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This week may go down as the moment "AI" stopped being a marketing word for website owners and became an operational one — for good and for bad.
A WordPress plugin used by millions of sites was found to allow silent admin takeover. Shopify merchants are now selling inside ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini without lifting a finger. Google's AI Mode just pushed the zero-click rate to 93%. And Anthropic confirmed an internal AI model is now finding zero-days that humans missed for 27 years.
Catch up on previous roundups: last week, earlier this month, and the April overview. Here are seven new developments that matter right now.