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The 2023 Wordfence Holiday Bug Extravaganza Reaches An Exciting Conclusion!
After an incredibly successful few weeks, the Wordfence Holiday Bug Extravaganza came to a close yesterday. We’d like to sincerely thank everyone who spent time researching, finding, and submitting vulnerabilities. Your efforts have helped to make the WordPress...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 11, 2023 to December 17, 2023)
Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 16 vulnerabilities disclosed in 16 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been...
Wordfence CLI 2.1.0 Adds Email Capability and Unattended Configuration
Note: This post refers to Wordfence CLI, the command line tool for operations teams to rapidly scan large numbers of WordPress websites for vulnerabilities and malware, not the Wordfence plugin which is deeply integrated into WordPress and provides additional...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 4, 2023 to December 10, 2023)
Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! Register as a researcher and submit your...
Over 100 WordPress Repository Plugins Affected by Shortcode-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
On August 14, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began a research project to find Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Shortcode vulnerabilities in WordPress repository plugins. This type of vulnerability enables threat actors with contributor-level...
Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Found in Backup Migration Plugin
Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! The researcher who reported this vulnerability was...
PSA: High Severity File Upload Vulnerability in Elementor Patched
On December 6, 2023, the Wordfence team noticed a changelog entry for version 3.18.1 of Elementor, a WordPress plugin installed on nearly 9 million sites. We did not discover the original vulnerability and only became aware of it after reviewing the changelog...
Vulnerability Researchers: Check out The Critical Thinking Podcast
Today, The Wordfence Bug Bounty Program was featured on an episode of the Critical Thinking Podcast, a top resource and community for bug bounty researchers. Critical Thinking is a podcast focused on ethical hacking and security analysis and is described as a “by...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (November 27, 2023 to December 3, 2023)
Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! Register as a researcher and submit your vulnerabilities...
PSA: Critical POP Chain Allowing Remote Code Execution Patched in WordPress 6.4.2
WordPress 6.4.2 was released today, on December 6, 2023. It includes a patch for a POP chain introduced in version 6.4 that, combined with a separate Object Injection vulnerability, could result in a Critical-Severity vulnerability allowing attackers to execute...