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Last week, there were 277 vulnerabilities disclosed in 184 WordPress Plugins and 70 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 94 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...

On May 13th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Burst Statistics, a WordPress plugin with 200,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers, with knowledge of an administrator...

On May 4th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Kirki WordPress plugin. Although the plugin has more than 500,000 active installations, we estimate that only around 150,000 sites are using a vulnerable...

In March 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1718 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and...

On March 24th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Administrator Account Creation vulnerability in WP Maps Pro, a WordPress plugin with more than 15,000 sales. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new...

Last week, there were 99 vulnerabilities disclosed in 87 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress Theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 68 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week....

Last week, there were 78 vulnerabilities disclosed in 62 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 59 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week....

THREAT ANALYSIS May 2026 · Forensic Case Study A forensic breakdown of how an attacker turned CyberPanel’s SnappyMail logging into a persistent webshell that survived every WordPress cleanup attempt. A WordPress site owner reported redirect malware on their site. They...

Last week, there were 75 vulnerabilities disclosed in 59 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 56 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week....