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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 10, 2026 to August 16, 2026)
Last week, there were 259 vulnerabilities disclosed in 199 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 142 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...
100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Pods WordPress Plugin
On August 10th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Pods, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to...
Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin
On July 24th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Elementor Pro, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 6,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload...
600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Forminator Forms WordPress Plugin
40,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin
On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in User Profile Builder, a WordPress plugin with more than 40,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as the user...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026)
Last week, there were 249 vulnerabilities disclosed in 197 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 136 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...
PSA: Supply Chain Compromise in BdThemes Ecosystem via Poisoned API Response
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team was notified on August 7th, 2026 of a supply chain compromise affecting BdThemes, a WordPress plugin vendor whose plugins are available in the official WordPress plugins directory. Currently, all the affected plugins are...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 27, 2026 to August 2, 2026)
Last week, there were 224 vulnerabilities disclosed in 177 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 119 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...
Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – April 2026
In April 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1288 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...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 20, 2026 to July 26, 2026)
Last week, there were 223 vulnerabilities disclosed in 175 WordPress Plugins and 6 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 88 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week....