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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 126 vulnerabilities disclosed in 102 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress themes that have...

On May 1, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began the responsible disclosure process for multiple high and critical severity vulnerabilities we discovered in Kirotech’s UserPro plugin, which is actively installed on more than 20,000 WordPress websites....

Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Over the next 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Please note there was a minor error in the heading of the email, and this report only runs from November 6th to...

I’ve always created growth by focusing on free. It started back in 2003 when I launched WorkZoo in London. WorkZoo was a job search engine that ended up being one of Time Magazine’s top 50 websites of 2005. These days we take free search capability for granted, but 20...

Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Over the next 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 79 vulnerabilities disclosed in 64 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been...

At Defiant Inc and Wordfence, our mission is to Secure the Web. A critical component of creating and maintaining a secure online community is the research that reveals vulnerabilities in software. Without this research, only malicious hackers would find...

Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 102 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 37 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...

In the first post in this series, we covered common PHP encoding techniques and how they’re used by malware to hide from security analysts and scanners. In today’s post, we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into other obfuscation techniques that make use of other...

Note: If you’re a WordPress user, we recommend the Wordfence Security Plugin which provides a robust and complete set of security controls for WordPress websites. If you host WordPress servers and need high performance malware and vulnerability scanning on the command...

Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 95 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 39 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week....