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…
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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!…