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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....
WP2Shell WordPress Exploit Technical Analysis and Real Attack Data
On July 17th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing a critical vulnerability chain that can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to create an administrator account and then execute code through normal administrator...
Wordfence PRISM Detected Backdoored WordPress Plugin within Two Hours of it Being Introduced
On July 28th, 2026, our autonomous AI vulnerability intelligence agent, Wordfence PRISM, identified a critical Authentication Bypass backdoor in Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, a WordPress plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations, less than two hours...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 13, 2026 to July 19, 2026)
Last week, there were 75 vulnerabilities disclosed in WordPress Core, 68 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 50 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress...
A New Threat Landscape Meets A New Kind of Defender
Three years ago we launched a bug bounty program to accelerate WordPress security research, and it has been incredibly successful and has since secured the WordPress community against 9,727 vulnerabilities reported through our program. We have thus far awarded a total...
wp2shell Aftermath: The First Critical Unauthenticated WordPress Core RCE in Nearly a Decade
On Friday, July 17, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released security updates for WordPress Core addressing two vulnerabilities that, when chained together, can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The chain, now commonly referred to as wp2shell, was...
PSA: WordPress Core Patched Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Chain
On July 17, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing two security vulnerabilities. The first is an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-60137, while the second can be chained with the SQL injection...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 6, 2026 to July 12, 2026)
Last week, there were 267 vulnerabilities disclosed in 222 WordPress Plugins and 6 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 136 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 29, 2026 to July 5, 2026)
Last week, there were 246 vulnerabilities disclosed in 179 WordPress Plugins and 40 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 100 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 22, 2026 to June 28, 2026)
Last week, there were 199 vulnerabilities disclosed in 169 WordPress Plugins and 9 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 111 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last...