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PSA: Critical Vulnerability Patched in Ninja Forms WordPress Plugin
On June 16, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team noticed a back-ported security update in Ninja Forms, a WordPress plugin with over one million active installations. As with all security updates in WordPress plugins and themes, our team analyzed the plugin to...
Top Five Attacking IPs This Month: Their Locations May Not Be Where You Think
At Wordfence, we see large amounts of threat actor data, and often that data tells unexpected stories. Taking a look at just the top five attacking IP addresses over a 30 day period, you might be surprised to find out where these attacks are originating, and what they...
Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability In Download Manager Plugin
On May 30, 2022, Security Researcher Rafie Muhammad reported a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to us that they discovered in Download Manager, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. On request, we assigned a vulnerability identifier of...
The Cybersecurity CIA Triad: What You Need to Know as a WordPress Site Owner
One of the core concepts of cybersecurity is known as the CIA Triad. There are three pillars to the triad, with each pillar being designed to address an aspect of securing data. These three pillars are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. The Confidentiality...
Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Jupiter and JupiterX Premium Themes
On April 5, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a set of vulnerabilities in the Jupiter and JupiterX Premium themes and the required JupiterX Core companion plugin for WordPress, which included a critical...
Millions of Attacks Target Tatsu Builder Plugin
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking a large-scale attack against a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Tatsu Builder, which is tracked by CVE-2021-25094 and was publicly disclosed on March 24, 2022 by an independent security researcher. The...
Have you been maintaining your websites AODA compliance?
Was your website created to be AODA compliant? Is it still compliant? Did you know that any time you make a content update to the website – that is add text, a picture, a video, etc. – there are things you should be doing to maintain your AODA compliance? AODA is the...
PHP Object Injection Vulnerability in Booking Calendar Plugin
On April 18, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for an Object Injection vulnerability in the Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress, which has over 60,000 installations. We received a response the same day and sent...
Misleading Domain Name Registry Mail
Misleading Domain Name Mail Tip/Warning Just a tip/reminder that if you get official-looking physical mail from a company called "Domain Registry", "Domain Registry of Canada", or something along those lines stating, that your domain name is about to expire, you can...
Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Elementor
On March 29, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the disclosure process for a critical vulnerability in the Elementor plugin that allowed any authenticated user to upload arbitrary PHP code. Elementor is one of the most popular WordPress plugins and...