Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 18, 2023 to September 24, 2023)

Last week, there were 42 vulnerabilities disclosed in 37 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 10 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected.

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New Firewall Rules Deployed Last Week

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team reviews each vulnerability to determine impact and severity, along with assessing the likelihood of exploitation, to verify that the Wordfence Firewall provides sufficient protection.

The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:

Super Store Finder <= 6.9.2 – Unauthenticated Email Creation/Sending

Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response customers received this protection immediately, while users still running the free version of Wordfence will receive this enhanced protection after a 30 day delay.

Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Patch Status
Number of Vulnerabilities

Unpatched
5

Patched
37

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating
Number of Vulnerabilities

Low Severity
0

Medium Severity
37

High Severity
5

Critical Severity
0

Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Vulnerability Type by CWE
Number of Vulnerabilities

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)
21

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
8

Missing Authorization
6

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)
2

Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
1

Information Exposure
1

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
1

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)
1

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
1

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name
Number of Vulnerabilities

Lana Codes
(Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)
11

Marco Wotschka
(Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)
3

Ivan Kuzymchak
(Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)
3

Do Xuan Trung
1

Skalucy
1

Zeyad Alshahrani
1

Etharus
1

JackYu
1

Malek Althubiany
1

Nguyen Xuan Chien
1

 

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name
Software Slug

Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads
ad-inserter

Anchor Episodes Index (Spotify for Podcasters)
anchor-episodes-index

Astra Bulk Edit
astra-bulk-edit

Brands for WooCommerce
brands-for-woocommerce

Chat Button: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger Chat, Telegram Chat, WeChat, Line Chat, Discord Chat for Customer Support Chat with floating Chat Widget
bit-assist

Checkfront Online Booking System
checkfront-wp-booking

Comment Blacklist Updater
comment-blacklist-updater

Comments – wpDiscuz
wpdiscuz

Connect Matomo (WP-Matomo, WP-Piwik)
wp-piwik

Contact Form by FormGet – Best Form Builder Plugin for WordPress
formget-contact-form

Copy Anything to Clipboard
copy-the-code

DoFollow Case by Case
dofollow-case-by-case

Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for WooCommerce
drag-and-drop-multiple-file-upload-for-woocommerce

Easy Registration Forms
easy-registration-forms

Inactive Logout
inactive-logout

Interactive Contact Form and Multi Step Form Builder with Drag & Drop Editor – Funnelforms Free
funnelforms-free

Leaflet Map
leaflet-map

Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, and Cookie Notice Generator
legal-pages

Media Library Assistant
media-library-assistant

Memberlite Shortcodes
memberlite-shortcodes

Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid
wpvivid-backuprestore

Payment gateway per Product for WooCommerce
woocommerce-product-payments

Pop ups, WordPress Exit Intent Popup, Email Pop Up, Lightbox Pop Up, Spin the Wheel, Contact Form Builder – Poptin
poptin

Pre-Publish Checklist
pre-publish-checklist

School Management System – WPSchoolPress
wpschoolpress

Simple Cloudflare Turnstile – CAPTCHA Alternative
simple-cloudflare-turnstile

Statify – Extended Evaluation
extended-evaluation-for-statify

Super Store Finder
superstorefinder-wp

Table of Contents Plus
table-of-contents-plus

WP Discord Invite
wp-discord-invite

WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce
wp-event-manager

WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses
wp-mailto-links

Weaver Xtreme Theme Support
weaverx-theme-support

Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode
coming-soon

Widget Responsive for Youtube
youtube-widget-responsive

WordPress Charts
wp-charts

iPanorama 360 – WordPress Virtual Tour Builder
ipanorama-360-virtual-tour-builder-lite

Vulnerability Details

Please note that if you run the Wordfence plugin on your WordPress site, with the scanner enabled, you should’ve already been notified if your site was affected by any of these vulnerabilities. If you’d like to receive real-time notifications whenever a vulnerability is added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, check out our Slack and HTTP Webhook Integration, which is completely free to utilize.

wpDiscuz <= 7.6.5 – Unauthenticated SQL Injection

Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary Directory Deletion via Path Traversal

iPanorama 360 – WordPress Virtual Tour Builder <= 1.7.3 – Authenticated (Admin+) SQL injection

Weaver Xtreme Theme Support <= 6.3.0 – Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via Imported File

Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for WooCommerce <= 1.1.0 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Funnelforms Free <= 3.3.9 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

WordPress Charts <= 0.7.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Leaflet Map <= 3.3.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Widget Responsive for Youtube <= 1.6.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Poptin <= 1.3 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Simple Cloudflare Turnstile <= 1.23.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Memberlite Shortcodes <= 1.3.8 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Anchor Episodes Index (Spotify for Podcasters) <= 2.1.7 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Media Library Assistant <= 3.10 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Copy Anything to Clipboard <= 2.6.4 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses <= 3.1.3 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

WP-Matomo Integration (WP-Piwik) <= 1.0.28 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Contact Form by FormGet <= 5.5.5 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.4 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

Payment gateway per Product for WooCommerce <= 3.2.7 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

WP Discord Invite <= 2.4.1 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via webhook

Super Store Finder <= 6.9.2 – Unauthenticated Email Creation/Sending

Statify – Extended Evaluation <= 2.6.3 – Authenticated (Admin+) CSV Injection

Comment Blacklist Updater <= 1.1.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via update_blacklist_manual

Ad Inserter <= 2.7.30 – Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via ai_ajax

Pre-Publish Checklist <= 1.1.1 – Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Post ‘_ppc_meta_key’ Update

Inactive Logout <= 3.2.2 – Missing Authorization

Ad Inserter <= 2.7.30 – Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via ai-debug-processing-fe

Table of Contents Plus <= 2302 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Bit Assist <= 1.1.9 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce <= 3.1.37.1 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Astra Bulk Edit <= 1.2.7 – Missing Authorization

Website Builder by SeedProd <= 6.15.13.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Easy Registration Forms <= 2.1.1 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure via Shortcode

DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.4.1 Cross-Site Request Forgery via getEmail and getUrl

Brands for WooCommerce <= 3.8.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

Legal Pages <= 1.3.7 – Missing Authorization on ‘deleteLegalTemplate’

Inactive Logout <= 3.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

Brands for WooCommerce <= 3.8.2.2 – Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Manipulation and Information Retrieval

Checkfront Online Booking System <= 3.6 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

As a reminder, Wordfence has curated an industry leading vulnerability database with all known WordPress core, theme, and plugin vulnerabilities known as Wordfence Intelligence.

This database is continuously updated, maintained, and populated by Wordfence’s highly credentialed and experienced vulnerability researchers through in-house vulnerability research, vulnerability researchers submitting directly to us using our CVE Request form, and by monitoring varying sources to capture all publicly available WordPress vulnerability information and adding additional context where we can.

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