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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....
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...