security·February 15, 2026
Wormhole Bridge Exploit: $12M Drained via Unpatched Governance Proxy
A critical vulnerability in Wormhole's governance proxy contract allowed an attacker to drain $12 million across Ethereum and Solana before the team froze the bridge.
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Key Findings
- 01Attacker exploited uninitialized proxy storage slot in governance contract
- 02$12M drained: $8.4M on Ethereum, $3.6M on Solana
- 03Vulnerability existed since v2.1 upgrade — 47 days undetected
- 04Funds partially recovered via MEV bot frontrunning
Wormhole Bridge Exploit: $12M Drained via Unpatched Governance Proxy
A critical vulnerability in Wormhole's governance proxy contract allowed an attacker to drain $12 million across Ethereum and Solana before the team froze the bridge.
Sources
[on-chain]Exploit Transaction
[off-chain]Wormhole Incident Report
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