🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
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$563 Bounty Awarded for Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Patched in Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On April…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 22, 2024 to April 28, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
$197 Bounty Awarded for Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion Vulnerability Patched in LeadConnector WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 15, 2024 to April 21, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
$493 Bounty Awarded for Arbitrary Options Update Vulnerability Patched in WP Datepicker WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On April…
$2,063 Bounty Awarded for Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in User Registration WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On March…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 8, 2024 to April 14, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
$400 Bounty Awarded for SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in WP Activity Log Premium WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
$1,250 Bounty Awarded for Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in Email Subscribers by Icegram Express WordPress Plugin
On March 25th, 2024, during our second Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for an unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability in Email Subscribers by Icegram Express, a WordPress plugin with more than 90,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 1, 2024 to April 7, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Patched in WordPress Core
WordPress 6.5.2 was released yesterday, on April 9, 2024. It included a single security patch, along with a handful of bug fixes. The security patch was for a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that could be exploited by both unauthenticated users,…
$937 Bounty Awarded for Privilege Escalation and Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities Patched in MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
$657 Bounty Awarded for Arbitrary File Upload Patched in WEmanage App Worker WordPress Plugin
On February 1st, 2024, during our Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Management App for WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin with 1,000+ active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for authenticated users such…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 25, 2024 to March 31, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
$5,500 Bounty Awarded for Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in LayerSlider WordPress Plugin
On March 25th, 2024, during our second Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for an unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability in LayerSlider, a WordPress plugin with more than 1,000,000 estimated active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged to extract sensitive…
Introducing New Pricing For Wordfence CLI!
We have an exciting announcement today about the Wordfence CLI project. We launched Wordfence CLI at WordCamp US back in August of 2023 with the goal of bringing malware and vulnerability scanning to the command line. We’ve been working closely…
Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Patched in WP-Members Membership Plugin – $500 Bounty Awarded
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 18, 2024 to March 24, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 11, 2024 to March 17, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
$601 Bounty Awarded for Interesting Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local JS File Inclusion Vulnerability Patched in File Manager WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in Tutor LMS WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Too Much Escaping Backfires, Allows Shortcode-Based XSS Vulnerability in Contact Form Entries WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Record Breaking $153,000+ Already Invested into the Security of the WordPress Ecosystem by Wordfence – More to Come!
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! In just…
$1,313 Bounty Awarded for Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in RegistrationMagic WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 4, 2024 to March 10, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there…
Critical Vulnerability Remains Unpatched in Two Permanently Closed MiniOrange WordPress Plugins – $1,250 Bounty Awarded
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On March…
Unauthenticated Stored XSS Vulnerability Patched in Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin
On February 28th, 2024, during our second Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for an unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ultimate Member, a WordPress plugin with more than 200,000+ active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged to…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (February 26, 2024 to March 3, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (February 19, 2024 to February 25, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
Spring into Action! Earn up to $10,000 with our Extended Bug Bounty Program Extravaganza through Memorial Day!
Spring into action and kick-start your spring cleaning with a tech twist! We’re excited to announce the extension of our Bug Bounty Extravaganza through Memorial Day, May 27th, 2024. Now, you have a golden opportunity to earn up to $10,000…
$2,751 Bounty Awarded for Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Avada WordPress Theme
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
$2,063 Bounty Awarded for Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On January…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (February 12, 2024 to February 18, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
$1,313 Bounty Awarded for Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in Academy LMS WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in RSS Aggregator by Feedzy WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On February…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (February 5, 2024 to February 11, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
2023’s Critical WordPress Vulnerabilities and How They Work
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! In 2023,…
2023 Wordfence Critical Vulnerability Research in Review
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! In 2023,…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 29, 2024 to February 4, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
$1,900 Bounty Awarded for Arbitrary Options Update Vulnerability Patched in Cookie Information | Free GDPR Consent Solution WordPress Plugin
On December 11th, 2023, during our Holiday Bug Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Arbitrary Options Update vulnerability in Cookie Information | Free GDPR Consent Solution, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000+ active installations. This vulnerability could be…
Local File Inclusion Vulnerability Patched in Shield Security WordPress Plugin
On December 18, 2023, right before the end of Holiday Bug Extravaganza, we received a submission for a Local File Inclusion vulnerability in Shield Security, a WordPress plugin with more than 50,000+ active installations. It’s important to note that this…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 22, 2024 to January 28, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
The Wordfence 2023 State of WordPress Security Report
Today, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team is releasing our 2023 State of WordPress Security Report as a free White Paper. In our report, we look at changes in the threat landscape, analyze impactful trends, and provide recommendations based on our…
The WordPress 6.4.3 Security Update – What You Need to Know
Today, January 30, 2024, WordPress released version 6.4.3, which contains two security patches for longstanding, albeit minor, security concerns in WordPress Core. The first patch addresses an issue that allows users with Administrator (or Super Administrator on Multisite) privileges to…
$1,275 Bounty Awarded For Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability Patched in MW WP Form WordPress Plugin
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! On December…
Wordfence Researcher Featured on Critical Thinking Podcast: Sharing Advanced WordPress Bug Bounty Tips and Tricks
Today was another huge step forward in our continuing mission to secure the web. In celebration of the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program’s New Year Bug Extravaganza promotion, our very own Ram Gall, Senior Security Researcher here at Wordfence, was featured…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 15, 2024 to January 21, 2024)
🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week,…
High Severity Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in File Manager Pro WordPress Plugin
On December 14th, 2023, shortly after the launch of our Holiday Bug Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in File Manager Pro, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 10,000+ active installations. This vulnerability made it…
Our Bug Bounty Program Extravaganza is Back and it’s Longer This Time – Earn up to $10,000 for Vulnerabilities in WordPress Software!
At Wordfence our mission is to Secure The Web. WordPress powers over 40% of the Web, and Wordfence secures over 4 million WordPress websites. Our last extravaganza, the Holiday Bug Extravaganza, was so successful we decided to do it again…
Introducing Wordfence CLI 3.0.1: Now With Automatic Remediation!
Note: This post refers to Wordfence CLI, the command line tool for operations teams to rapidly scan large numbers of WordPress websites for vulnerabilities and malware, not the Wordfence plugin which is deeply integrated into WordPress and provides additional functionality,…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 8, 2024 to January 14, 2024)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 67 vulnerabilities disclosed in 60 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress…
Website Takeover Campaign Takes Advantage of Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Popup Builder Plugin
On January 10th, 2024 we received an interesting malware submission demonstrating how a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in single plugin can allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject an arbitrary administrative account that can be used to take over a website.…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 1, 2024 to January 7, 2024)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 85 vulnerabilities disclosed in 74 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 1, 2023 to January 7, 2023)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 85 vulnerabilities disclosed in 74 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress…
Type Juggling Leads to Two Vulnerabilities in POST SMTP Mailer WordPress Plugin
On December 14th, 2023, during our Bug Bounty Program Holiday Bug Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Authorization Bypass vulnerability in POST SMTP Mailer, a WordPress plugin with over 300,000+ active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 18, 2023 to December 31, 2023)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Over the last two weeks, there were 263 vulnerabilities disclosed in 217 WordPress Plugins…
The 2023 Wordfence Holiday Bug Extravaganza Reaches An Exciting Conclusion!
After an incredibly successful few weeks, the Wordfence Holiday Bug Extravaganza came to a close yesterday. We’d like to sincerely thank everyone who spent time researching, finding, and submitting vulnerabilities. Your efforts have helped to make the WordPress community and…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 11, 2023 to December 17, 2023)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 16 vulnerabilities disclosed in 16 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress…
Wordfence CLI 2.1.0 Adds Email Capability and Unattended Configuration
Note: This post refers to Wordfence CLI, the command line tool for operations teams to rapidly scan large numbers of WordPress websites for vulnerabilities and malware, not the Wordfence plugin which is deeply integrated into WordPress and provides additional functionality,…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 4, 2023 to December 10, 2023)
🎁 Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! Register as a researcher and submit your vulnerabilities today!🎁 Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed…
Over 100 WordPress Repository Plugins Affected by Shortcode-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
On August 14, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began a research project to find Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Shortcode vulnerabilities in WordPress repository plugins. This type of vulnerability enables threat actors with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject…
Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Found in Backup Migration Plugin
🎁 Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! The researcher who reported this vulnerability was awarded $2,751.00!…