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Last week, there were 63 vulnerabilities disclosed in 56 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 35 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:
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
Patched
59
Unpatched
4
Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week
Severity Rating
Number of Vulnerabilities
Medium Severity
43
High Severity
13
Critical Severity
7
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’)
32
Missing Authorization
10
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
5
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)
5
Information Exposure
2
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
2
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
1
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
1
Improper Access Control
1
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)
1
Improper Privilege Management
1
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
1
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
1
Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week
Researcher Name
Number of Vulnerabilities
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week
Software Name
Software Slug
Better Find and Replace
real-time-auto-find-and-replace
Black Widgets For Elementor
Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler
Bold Page Builder
Breakdance
Chatbot with ChatGPT WordPress
Comments – wpDiscuz
Cooked – Recipe Management
CTT Expresso para WooCommerce
Custom 404 Pro
Download Manager
Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
Ebook Store
Edubin
Element Pack Elementor Addons (Header Footer, Template Library, Dynamic Grid & Carousel, Remote Arrows)
Element Pack Pro – Addon for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin
Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
Event Manager, Events Calendar, Tickets, Registrations – Eventin
Extensions for Elementor
File Manager Pro – Filester
Filter & Grids
Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
FundEngine – Donation and Crowdfunding Platform
JetFormBuilder — Dynamic Blocks Form Builder
Kubio AI Page Builder
LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin
Lifetime free Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder for WordPress VForm
LiquidPoll – Polls, Surveys, NPS and Feedback Reviews
Message Filter for Contact Form 7
Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom)
Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks
Registration, User Profile, Membership, Content Restriction, User Directory, and Frontend Post Submission – WP User Frontend
RegistrationMagic – User Registration Plugin with Custom Registration Forms
custom-registration-form-builder-with-submission-manager
Remote Content Shortcode
Salon Booking System
Sender – Newsletter, SMS and Email Marketing Automation for WooCommerce
Sign-up Sheets
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
Social Feed Gallery
Spectra Pro
Sync Post With Other Site
Tainacan
TemplateSpare: Quick & Easy WordPress Site Builder – 475+ Ready-Made Demos for News, Blogs, eCommerce, and More. One-Click Import, No Coding Needed
Tin Canny Reporting for LearnDash
Traffic Manager
Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution
VikRentCar Car Rental Management System
WooCommerce – PDF Vouchers
WordPress File Upload
WordPress Menu Plugin — Superfly Responsive Menu
WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu
WP-PostRatings
YayExtra – WooCommerce Extra Product Options
Zephyr Project Manager
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.
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 through our Bug Bounty Program, and by monitoring varying sources to capture all publicly available WordPress vulnerability information and adding additional context where we can.
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