600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by SQL Injection Vulnerability in Backuply WordPress Plugin

On September 17th, 2026, we received a submission for a Second-Order SQL Injection vulnerability in Backuply, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to store a malicious SQL payload that is executed when an administrator later restores a database backup, … Read more

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 5, 2026 to October 11, 2026)

Last week, there were 655 vulnerabilities disclosed in 406 WordPress Plugins and 100 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 236 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our mission with … Read more

Wordfence Argus Discovers Critical Vulnerability in Ghostscript, the Program That Turns Uploaded PDFs into Thumbnails on Your Server

On September 8, 2026, Artifex released Ghostscript 10.08.0, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported sixteen days earlier. It is tracked as CVE-2026-39919 and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. A crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image can make Ghostscript … Read more