Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (Mar 20, 2023 to Mar 26, 2023)

Last week, there were 80 vulnerabilities disclosed in 69 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 31 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected.

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New Firewall Rules Deployed Last Week

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team reviews each vulnerability to determine impact and severity, along with assessing the likelihood of exploitation, to verify that the Wordfence Firewall provides sufficient protection.

The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:

WooCommerce Payments <= 5.6.1 -Authentication Bypass and Privilege Escalation 

The Wordfence Firewall has blocked 57,136 exploit attempts targeting this vulnerability since its release to premium, care, and response customers on March 23, 2023.

WAF-RULE-569 – Data redacted while we work with the developer to ensure the vulnerability protected by this WAF rule gets patched.
SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.1.20 – Missing Authorization

Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response customers received this protection immediately, while users still running the free version of Wordfence will receive this enhanced protection after a 30 day delay.

Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Patch Status
Number of Vulnerabilities

Unpatched
27

Patched
53

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating
Number of Vulnerabilities

Low Severity
0

Medium Severity
70

High Severity
9

Critical Severity
1

Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Vulnerability Type by CWE
Number of Vulnerabilities

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)
39

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
18

Missing Authorization
10

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)
4

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)
3

Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
2

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
1

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
1

Information Exposure
1

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
1

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name
Number of Vulnerabilities

Lana Codes
10

Mika
7

yuyudhn
6

Joshua Martinelle
5

Erwan LR
4

Yuki Haruma
3

Cat
3

Varun
2

Rafshanzani Suhada
2

Rio Darmawan
2

thiennv
2

Shreya Pohekar
2

minhtuanact
2

Vaibhav Rajput
1

Abdi Pranata
1

Nguyen Anh Tien
1

Michael Mazzolini
1

Fariq Fadillah Gusti Insani
1

Rafie Muhammad
1

Flaviu Popescu
1

rSolutions Security Team
1

ipatelsumit
1

Nithissh S
1

Bartłomiej Marek
1

NeginNrb
1

Pavitra Tiwari
1

Muhammad Daffa
1

Cyxow
1

Dave Jong
1

R3zk0n
1

Karol Mazurek
1

 

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name
Software Slug

Advance WordPress Search Plugin
th-advance-product-search

All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall
all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall

BigContact Contact Page
bigcontact

Branded Social Images – Open Graph Images with logo and extra text layer
branded-social-images

CBX Currency Converter
cbcurrencyconverter

Contact Form Email
contact-form-to-email

Contact Form Plugin – Fastest Contact Form Builder Plugin for WordPress by Fluent Forms
fluentform

ConvertBox Auto Embed WordPress plugin
convertbox-auto-embed

Custom Field Template
custom-field-template

Cyberus Key
cyberus-key

Disqus Conditional Load
disqus-conditional-load

Easy Table of Contents
easy-table-of-contents

Enhanced Plugin Admin
enhanced-plugin-admin

Event Manager and Tickets Selling Plugin for WooCommerce
mage-eventpress

Events Made Easy
events-made-easy

Export Users Data Distinct
export-users-data-distinct

Floating Cart and Menu Cart for WooCommerce
th-all-in-one-woo-cart

Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress
gallery-plugin

GamiPress – Youtube integration
gamipress-youtube-integration

GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
give

Google XML Sitemap for Mobile
google-mobile-sitemap

Hummingbird – Optimize Speed, Enable Cache, Minify CSS & Defer Critical JS
hummingbird-performance

I Recommend This
i-recommend-this

If Menu – Visibility control for Menus
if-menu

InPost Gallery
inpost-gallery

JS Job Manager
js-jobs

JetEngine
jet-engine

Kanban Boards for WordPress
kanban

Klaviyo
klaviyo

Lazy Social Comments
lazy-facebook-comments

MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter
wp-meta-data-filter-and-taxonomy-filter

Open Graphite
open-graphite

Owl Carousel
owl-carousel

Pagination by BestWebSoft – Customizable WordPress Content Splitter and Navigation Plugin
pagination

Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery
photo-gallery

Pricing Tables For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer)
pricing-tables-for-wpbakery-page-builder

Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce
woo-product-feed-pro

Safe SVG
safe-svg

Scheduled Announcements Widget
scheduled-announcements-widget

Simple Custom Author Profiles
simple-custom-author-profiles

Simple Giveaways – Grow your business, email lists and traffic with contests
giveasap

Simple Mobile URL Redirect
simple-mobile-url-redirect

Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Responsive WordPress Slideshows
ml-slider

Stock Sync for WooCommerce
stock-sync-for-woocommerce

Store Locator WordPress
agile-store-locator

Stylish Cost Calculator
stylish-cost-calculator-premium

Team Member – Team with Slider
team-showcase-supreme

Thank You Page Customizer for WooCommerce – Increase Your Sales
woo-thank-you-page-customizer

Time Sheets
time-sheets

TreePress – Easy Family Trees & Ancestor Profiles
treepress

User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form And User Profile For WordPress
user-registration

Userlike – WordPress Live Chat plugin
userlike

Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
th-variation-swatches

Vertical scroll recent post
vertical-scroll-recent-post

VigilanTor
vigilantor

W4 Post List
w4-post-list

WP Content Filter – Censor All Offensive Content From Your Site
wp-content-filter

WP Popup Banners
wp-popup-banners

WP VR – 360 Panorama and Virtual Tour Builder For WordPress
wpvr

Waiting: One-click countdowns
waiting

Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Activity Social Share
bp-activity-social-share

Weather Station
live-weather-station

WooCommerce JazzCash Gateway Plugin
jazzcash-woocommerce-gateway

WooCommerce Payments – Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo
woocommerce-payments

WordPress Amazon S3 Plugin
wp-s3

WordPress CRM, Email & Marketing Automation for WordPress | Award Winner — Groundhogg
groundhogg

WordPress Pinterest Plugin – Make a Popup, User Profile, Masonry and Gallery Layout
gs-pinterest-portfolio

amr users
amr-users

eRoom – Zoom Meetings & Webinars
eroom-zoom-meetings-webinar

WordPress Themes with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name
Software Slug

Resoto
resoto

Vulnerability Details

WooCommerce Payments 4.8.0 – 5.6.1 Authentication Bypass and Privilege Escalation

Waiting: One-click countdowns <= 0.6.2 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via ‘pbc_down[meta][id]’

WP Popup Banners <= 1.2.5 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via ‘value’

Events Made Easy <= 2.3.14 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via ‘search_name’

Crocoblock JetEngine <= 3.1.3 – Authenticated(Author+) Arbitrary File Upload to Remote Code Execution

Pricing Tables For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) <= 2.0 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion via Shortcode

User Registration <= 2.3.2.1 – PHP Object Injection

Stylish Cost Calculator < 7.9.0 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Groundhogg <= 2.7.9.3 – Authenticated (Administrator)+ SQL Injection

SVG Sanitizer library <= 0.15.4 – Cross-Site Scripting Bypass

JS Job Manager <= 2.0.0 – Missing Authorization

TH Advance WordPress Search <= 1.1.4 – Missing Authorization via settings_init

FluentForms <= 4.3.24 – Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Vertical scroll recent post <= 14.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcodes

WordPress Pinterest Plugin <= 1.6.1 – Stored (Contributor+) Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Team Member <= 4.4 – Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via new_style_name

W4 Post List <= 2.4.5 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Block Options

Scheduled Announcements Widget <= 0.2 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

GamiPress – Youtube integration <= 1.0.7 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Pricing Tables For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) <= 2.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

ConvertBox Auto Embed WordPress plugin <= 1.0.19 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider <= 3.29.0 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

InPost Gallery <= 2.1.4.1 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via ‘imgurl’

MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter <= 1.3.0.1 – Relected Cross-Site Scripting via ‘tax_name’

WP VR <= 8.2.8 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

W4 Post List <= 2.4.5 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

WordPress Amazon S3 Plugin <= 1.5 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

WooCommerce JazzCash Gateway Plugin <= 2.0 – Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting

Open Graphite <= 1.6.0 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via topic parameter

Export Users Data Distinct <= 1.3 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) CSV Injection

amr users <= 4.59.4 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) CSV Injection

Simple Giveaways <= 2.45.0 – Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Form, Prize, and Sharing Method Fields

Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Activity Social Share <= 3.5.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

TH Variation Swatches <= 1.2.7 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via delete_settings

CBX Currency Converter <= 3.0.3 – Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Plugin Settings Leakage/Changes

Enhanced Plugin Admin <= 1.16 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via epa_options_page

Easy Table of Contents <= 2.0.45.2 – Missing Authorization via eztoc_reset_options_to_default

TH Side Cart and Menu Cart for Woocommerce <= 1.1.1 – Missing Authorization

Branded Social Images <= 1.1.0 – Missing Authorization leading to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Updates

Owl Carousel <= 0.5.3 – Missing Authorization via save_paramter.php

If Menu <= 0.16.3 – Missing Authorization to Admin Settings Modification

eRoom – Zoom Meetings & Webinar <= 1.4.6 – Missing Authorization via add_feedback

GiveWP <= 2.25.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via give_ajax_delete_payment_note

GiveWP <= 2.25.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via give_ajax_store_payment_note

Hummingbird <= 3.4.1 – Unauthenticated Path Traversal

Resoto <= 1.0.8 – Missing Authorization leading to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Activation

Photo Gallery by 10Web <= 1.8.14 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal

Kanban Boards for WordPress <= 2.5.20 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Userlike <= 2.2 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Store Locator WordPress <= 1.4.9 – Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘category_name’, ‘description’, ‘description_2’ parameters

Klaviyo <= 3.0.9 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

VigilanTor <= 1.3.10 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress <= 4.6.9 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Lazy Social Comments <= 2.0.4 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin Options

Disqus Conditional Load <= 11.0.6 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via plugin settings.

Simple Giveaways <= 2.45.0 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Settings

Simple Giveaways <= 2.45.0 – Authenticated(Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via form fields

WP Content Filter – Censor All Offensive Content From Your Site <= 3.0.1 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Simple Custom Author Profiles <= 1.0.0 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

All-In-One Security (AIOS) <= 5.1.4 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Pagination by BestWebSoft < 1.2.2 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cyberus Key <= 1.0 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘uid’ in ‘cyberkey_settings’ Plugin Setting

Event Manager for WooCommerce <= 3.8.6 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘mep_get_option’ function

Time Sheets <= 1.29.2 – Authenticated(Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cyberus Key <= 1.0 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

TreePress – Easy Family Trees & Ancestor Profiles <= 2.0.22 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘post_title’ parameter

TH Side Cart and Menu Cart for Woocommerce <= 1.1.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

W4 Post List <= 2.4.5 – Information Disclosure via post_excerpt

GiveWP <= 2.25.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

I Recommend This <= 3.8.3 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

BigContact <= 1.5.8 – Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Plugin Settings Updates

Download Weather Station <= 3.8.11 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

Google XML Sitemap for Mobile <= 1.6.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via mobile_sitemap_generate

Custom Field Template <= 2.5.8 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via Plugin Options Update

Stock Sync for WooCommerce <= 2.3.2 – Missing Authorization

Simple Mobile URL Redirect <= 1.7.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Mobile Redirect Updates

Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce <= 12.4.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via update_project

Contact Form Email <= 1.3.31 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Feedback Submission

Stock Sync for WooCommerce <= 2.3.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

Thank You Page Customizer for WooCommerce – Increase Your Sales <= 1.0.13 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via send_email

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