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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....

On September 28, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for multiple vulnerabilities in AI ChatBot, a WordPress plugin with over 4,000 active installations. After making our initial contact attempt on September 28th,...

Just a quick note. If you’re looking for objective Wordfence reviews, you can find them on the official WordPress plugin repository in the Wordfence reviews section which is linked to from the Wordfence entry in the official WordPress repository. The Wordfence plugin...

On August 14, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache plugin, which is actively installed on more than 4,000,000 WordPress websites,...

Last week, there were 103 vulnerabilities disclosed in 85 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes, with 7 of those being in WordPress Core, that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 46 Vulnerability Researchers that...