The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team identified an interesting malware sample in mid June during a site clean. The malware was installed as a must-use plugin with several self-healing mechanisms in place in order to survive removal. It also makes use of Etherhiding, a technique that hides the location of the attacker’s servers behind a smart … Read more
On September 22, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released WordPress 7.1.2, as well as security backports for every branch back to WordPress 4.7 to address a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability. The issue is tracked as CVE-2026-87902 and has a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2 (Critical). The vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated attacker to make … Read more
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, … Read more
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and share practices that benefit their projects. I represent the WordPress Foundation in this role, which … Read more
On September 1, 2026, the libheif project released version 1.23.3, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported four days earlier. The libheif maintainer, Dirk Farin, gave it a score of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, with the release notes singling it … Read more
