Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 22, 2024 to January 28, 2024)

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Last week, there were 52 vulnerabilities disclosed in 42 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 26 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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Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Patch Status
Number of Vulnerabilities

Unpatched
15

Patched
37

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating
Number of Vulnerabilities

Low Severity
0

Medium Severity
46

High Severity
5

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’)
25

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
8

Missing Authorization
5

Improper Access Control
5

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
2

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
2

Use of Insufficiently Random Values
1

Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’)
1

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)
1

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)
1

Inappropriate Source Code Style or Formatting
1

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name
Number of Vulnerabilities

Bob Matyas
8

Webbernaut
6

Francesco Carlucci
6

Krzysztof Zając
5

Daniel Ruf
4

Sh
2

Majed Refaea
2

Yuki Haruma
1

Tobias Weißhaar (kun_19)
1

Le Ngoc Anh
1

Byeongjun Jo
1

Pedro Cuco (Illex)
1

Bence Szalai
1

arpeetrathi
1

stealthcopter
1

Sam Pizzey (mopman)
1

Colin Xu
1

Ahmed Algohary
1

Akbar Kustirama
1

kodaichodai
1

Dipak Panchal (th3.d1p4k)
1

Nex Team
1

drop
1

Ma Long
1

SudoBash
1

Richard Telleng (stueotue)
1

 

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name
Software Slug

(Simply) Guest Author Name
guest-author-name

10Web AI Assistant – AI content writing assistant
ai-assistant-by-10web

AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
accelerated-mobile-pages

Add SVG Support for Media Uploader | inventivo
add-svg-support-for-media-uploader-inventivo

Advanced Database Cleaner
advanced-database-cleaner

Advanced Schedule Posts
advanced-schedule-posts

Allow SVG
allow-svg

Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone
backuply

Better Follow Button for Jetpack
better-follow-button-for-jetpack

Better Search Replace
better-search-replace

Category Discount Woocommerce
woo-product-category-discount

Content Views – Post Grid, Slider, Accordion (Gutenberg Blocks and Shortcode)
content-views-query-and-display-post-page

Elementor Addons by Livemesh
addons-for-elementor

Exclusive Addons for Elementor
exclusive-addons-for-elementor

File Manager
wp-file-manager

File Manager Pro
wp-file-manager-pro

Form Maker by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder
form-maker

Formidable Forms – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
formidable

InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration
instawp-connect

Mang Board WP
mangboard

Marketing Twitter Bot
wordpress-twitterbot

Meks Smart Social Widget
meks-smart-social-widget

PDF Generator For Fluent Forms – The Contact Form Plugin
fluentforms-pdf

PDF Poster – PDF Embedder Plugin for WordPress
pdf-poster

Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions
paid-memberships-pro

SVG Uploads Support
svg-uploads-support

Sticky Buttons – floating buttons builder
sticky-buttons

Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool
ultimate-noindex-nofollow-tool

Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend
views-for-wpforms-lite

WP Customer Area
customer-area

WP Dashboard Notes
wp-dashboard-notes

WP Go Maps (formerly WP Google Maps)
wp-google-maps

WP RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging
wp-rss-aggregator

WP-Reply Notify
wp-reply-notify

WPFront Notification Bar
wpfront-notification-bar

WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub)
pubsubhubbub

WolfNet IDX for WordPress
wolfnet-idx-for-wordpress

WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons
maxbuttons

WordPress Simple Shopping Cart
wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart

aBitGone CommentSafe
abitgone-commentsafe

coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress
coreactivity

illi Link Party!
link-party

Vulnerability Details

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Better Search Replace <= 1.4.4 – Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

File Manager Pro <= 8.3.4 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload

InstaWP Connect <= 0.1.0.9 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection

File Manager <= 7.2.1 – Sensitive Information Exposure via Backup Filenames

illi Link Party! <= 1.0 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

coreActivity <= 1.8 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.3 – Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via process_bulk_action

10Web AI Assistant – AI content writing assistant <= 1.0.18 – Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation

Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone <= 1.2.3 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal

Elementor Addons by Livemesh <= 8.3.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

(Simply) Guest Author Name <= 4.34 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Add SVG Support for Media Uploader | inventivo <= 1.0.5 – Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG

Exclusive Addons for Elementor <= 2.6.8 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Link Anything

SVG Uploads Support <= 2.1.1 – Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG

WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.6 – Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode

Allow SVG <= 1.1 – Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG

aBitGone CommentSafe <= 1.0.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update and Cross-Site Request Forgery

PDF Poster – PDF Embedder Plugin for WordPress <= 2.1.17 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool <= 1.1.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Advanced Schedule Posts <= 2.1.8 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

WP Customer Area <= 8.2.2 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Accelerated Mobile Pages <= 1.0.92.1 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

WP Go Maps (formerly WP Google Maps) <= 9.0.28 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Formidable Forms <= 6.7.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Marketing Twitter Bot <= 1.11 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update and Cross-Site Scripting

Exclusive Addons for Elementor <= 2.6.8 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Form-Maker (twb_form-maker) <= 1.15.21 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Code Execution via Execute

illi Link Party! <= 1.0 – Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Link Deletion

Category Discount Woocommerce <= 4.12 – Missing Authorization via wpcd_save_discount()

Paid Memberships Pro <= 2.12.7 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Level Orders Update

Category Discount Woocommerce <= 4.11 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via wpcd_save_discount()

PDF Generator For Fluent Forms <= 1.1.7 – Cross-Site Scripting

WPFront Notification Bar <= 3.3.2 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via wpfront-notification-bar-options[custom_class]

Mang Board WP <= 1.7.7 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Meks Smart Social Widget <= 1.6.3 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

WP RSS Aggregator <= 4.23.4 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via RSS Feed Source

Content Views <= 3.6.2 – Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via settings

WordPress Simple Shopping Cart <= 4.7.1 – Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Sticky Buttons <= 3.2.2 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

WolfNet IDX for WordPress <= 1.19.1 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

illi Link Party! <= 1.0 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub) <= 3.1.4 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Better Follow Button for Jetpack <= 8.0 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 – Missing Authorization via get_form_fields

Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via create_view

Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 – Missing Authorization via save_view

WP Dashboard Notes <= 1.0.10 – Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Private Notes Update

WP-Reply Notify <= 1.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

InstaWP Connect <= 0.1.0.9 – Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Dislcosure

Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 – Missing Authorization via create_view

illi Link Party! <= 1.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_view

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