Quarterly WordPress Threat Intelligence Report – Q4 2025

  As the leader in WordPress security, Wordfence provides unparalleled security coverage that fully encompasses protection, active monitoring, detection, and response all built around our threat intelligence, demonstrating a strong commitment to security. Our mission is to ensure comprehensive defense-in-depth for every layer of a WordPress website’s security. It’s important to understand that a complete … Read more

WordPress 6.9.1 Maintenance Release

WordPress 6.9.1 is now available! This minor release includes fixes for 49 bugs throughout Core and the Block Editor, addressing issues affecting multiple areas of WordPress including the block editor, mail, and classic themes. For a full list of bug fixes, please refer to the release candidate announcement. WordPress 6.9.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. … Read more

Important Notice: Preserving Free Access While Evolving the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability API

In 2022, Wordfence introduced a completely free vulnerability database to support the WordPress security community. We made sure that included completely free access to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database API on the founded belief that WordPress vulnerability information should be freely and readily accessible to everyone in the community for optimal security coverage. Since then, … Read more

New AI Agent Skill for WordPress

Faster Way For AI Agents To Test AI code agents are getting better at writing WordPress plugins and themes, but testing can still be the slow part. WordPress contributor Brandon Payton has published wp-playground, a new AI agent skill designed to run WordPress via the Playground CLI, giving agents a fast, repeatable way to run … Read more

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 19, 2026 to January 25, 2026)

Did you know Wordfence runs a Bug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? Researchers can earn up to $31,200 per vulnerability, for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability, submit the details directly to us, and we handle all the rest. Last week, … Read more