Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 7, 2024 to October 13, 2024)

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Last week, there were 103 vulnerabilities disclosed in 94 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 38 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 Wordfence Intelligence is to make valuable vulnerability information easily accessible to everyone, like the WordPress community, so individuals and organizations alike can utilize that data to make the internet more secure. That is why the Wordfence Intelligence user interface, vulnerability API, webhook integration, and Wordfence CLI Vulnerability Scanner are all completely free to access and utilize both personally and commercially, and why we are running this weekly vulnerability report.

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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:

Hunk Companion <= 1.8.4 – Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation
WAF-RULE-754 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.

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
68

Unpatched
35

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating
Number of Vulnerabilities

Medium Severity
80

High Severity
14

Critical Severity
9

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’)
45

Missing Authorization
18

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
7

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)
6

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
5

Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’)
5

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
4

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
2

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program (‘PHP Remote File Inclusion’)
2

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)
2

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
2

Improper Input Validation
1

Improper Privilege Management
1

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
1

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
1

Use of Less Trusted Source
1

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name
Number of Vulnerabilities

14

13

11

6

4

3

3

3

3

2

2

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

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name
Software Slug

2D Tag Cloud

2d-tag-cloud-widget-by-sujin

ACF Images Search And Insert

acf-images-search-and-insert

Advanced Blocks Pro

advanced-blocks-pro

Advanced Custom Fields

advanced-custom-fields

Advanced Custom Fields Pro

advanced-custom-fields-pro

Auto iFrame

auto-iframe

Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule

wp-time-capsule

BlockMeister – Block Pattern Builder

blockmeister

Bot for Telegram on WooCommerce

bot-for-telegram-on-woocommerce

Bridge Core

bridge-core

BuddyPress Docs

buddypress-docs

Category Icon

category-icon

CM Tooltip Glossary

enhanced-tooltipglossary

CMSMasters Content Composer

cmsmasters-content-composer

Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on

contact-form-7-paypal-add-on

Contact Form by Bit Form: Multi Step Form, Calculation Contact Form, Payment Contact Form & Custom Contact Form builder

bit-form

Contact Form by Supsystic

contact-form-by-supsystic

Contact Form Widget – Contact Query, Contact Page, Form Maker, Query Table

new-contact-form-widget

Creates 3D Flipbook, PDF Flipbook in WordPress

create-flipbook-from-pdf

CubeWP – All-in-One Dynamic Content Framework

cubewp-framework

Curator.io

curatorio

Disc Golf Manager

disc-golf-manager

Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard

download-plugins-dashboard

Easy Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – ThemeHunk

themehunk-megamenu-plus

Easy PayPal Gift Certificate

paypal-gift-certificate

Easy Social Share Buttons

easy-social-share-buttons

Elementor Addon Elements

addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder

Elementor Inline SVG

inline-svg-elementor

Embed PDF Viewer

embed-pdf-viewer

Embed videos and respect privacy

video-embed-privacy

Event Calendar

event-calendars

External featured image from bing

external-featured-image-from-bing

Featured Posts with Multiple Custom Groups (FPMCG)

featured-posts-with-multiple-custom-groups-fpmcg

Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List

mailchimp-wp

FULL – Cliente

full-customer

GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager

gdpr-consent-manager

GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor

gutenkit-blocks-addon

Happy Addons for Elementor

happy-elementor-addons

Hunk Companion

hunk-companion

Image Optimizer, Resizer and CDN – Sirv

sirv

ImagePress – Image Gallery

image-gallery

Increase upload file size & Maximum Execution Time limit

increase-upload-file-size-maximum-execution-time-limit

IP Loc8

ip-loc8

Keep Backup Daily

keep-backup-daily

Language Switcher

language-switcher

Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)

wp-limit-failed-login-attempts

Linkz.ai – Automatic link previews on hover

linkz-ai

Marketing and SEO Booster

marketing-and-seo-booster

Maximum Products per User for WooCommerce

maximum-products-per-user-for-woocommerce

Mynx Page Builder

mynx-page-builder

Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Brevo (formely Sendinblue)

mailin

Notification for Telegram

notification-for-telegram

Order Attachments for WooCommerce

order-attachments-for-woocommerce

Pedalo Connector

pedalo-connector

Photo Gallery, Images, Slider in Rbs Image Gallery

robo-gallery

PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry

powerpress

pretix widget

pretix-widget

Products, Order & Customers Export for WooCommerce

export-woocommerce

PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes

revisionary

QA Analytics – with Heatmaps & Replay, Privacy Friendly

qa-heatmap-analytics

Read more By Adam

read-more

Rescue Shortcodes

rescue-shortcodes

Restaurant Reservations Widget

restaurantconnect-reswidget

Royal Elementor Addons and Templates

royal-elementor-addons

SB Random Posts Widget

sb-random-posts-widget

Secure Custom Fields

advanced-custom-fields

SEUR Oficial

seur

ShopLentor – WooCommerce Builder for Elementor & Gutenberg +12 Modules – All in One Solution (formerly WooLentor)

woolentor-addons

Shortcode For Elementor Templates

shortcode-support-for-elementor-templates

Shortcodes AnyWhere

shortcodes-anywhere

ShortPixel Image Optimizer – Optimize Images, Convert WebP & AVIF

shortpixel-image-optimiser

Simple Baseball Scoreboard

simple-baseball-scoreboard

Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel, Post Slider, Post Timeline, Post Table, and List Category Posts, Latest Posts, Recent Posts, Popular Posts and More

post-carousel

Smooth Gallery Replacement

smooth-gallery-replacement

Social Sharing (by Danny)

dvk-social-sharing

Stackable – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks

stackable-ultimate-gutenberg-blocks

Survey Maker

survey-maker

TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy

tablepress

Tainacan

tainacan

Talkback

talkback-secure-linkback-protocol

Telecash Ricaricaweb

telecash-ricaricaweb

The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce

the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder

TS Poll – Survey, Versus Poll, Image Poll, Video Poll

poll-wp

User registration & user profile – UserPlus

userplus

WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency with WPML

woocommerce-multilingual

WordPress Comments Import & Export

comments-import-export-woocommerce

WordPress File Upload

wp-file-upload

WP Builder

cssjockey-add-ons

WP Helper Premium

wp-helper-lite

WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog’s Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder

wp-post-author

WP Ultimate Post Grid

wp-ultimate-post-grid

WP Users Masquerade

wp-users-masquerade

wp-Monalisa

wp-monalisa

Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress

youzify

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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