Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 28, 2025 to August 3, 2025)

Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! Spring into Summer with Wordfence! Now through September 4, 2025, earn 2X bounty rewards for all in-scope submissions from our ‘High Threat’ list in software with fewer than 5 million active installs. Bounties up to $31,200 per vulnerability. Submit bold. Earn big!  Participate in the SQLsplorer Challenge! … Read more

Pushing Boundaries With Claude Code

Claude Code stormed onto the programming scene when Anthropic launched it in February of this year. It moved, what Andrej Karpathy has called “The Autonomy Slider” from around a three to a solid eight. What this means is that you can give Claude Code direction, it will come up with a plan to accomplish the … Read more

Portland, Are You Ready? The WCUS 2025 Schedule Has Arrived!

We’re excited to announce that the full schedule for WordCamp US 2025 has been published! From August 26–29 in Portland, Oregon, join web creators, innovators, and community leaders for four days of learning, collaboration, and inspiration. This year’s lineup brings together sessions on everything from cutting-edge AI to hands-on workshops, performance, accessibility, design, and the … Read more

Maintenance Releases for WordPress branches 4.7 to 6.7

Following on from the WordPress 6.8.2 maintenance release last month, the included update to the root security certificate bundle has been backported to all branches back to 4.7. This ensures that when your site performs server-side HTTP requests, the most up-to-date information about trusted security certificates is used. Further information can be found on the … Read more

WordPress SQLsplorer Challenge: Bigger Scope and Bounties for All Researchers in the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program

From now through September 22, 2025, we’re running our SQLsplorer Challenge, focused on SQL Injection vulnerabilities. During this challenge, we’re expanding the scope of the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program to encourage deeper research into SQL Injection vulnerabilities and broader participation from researchers looking to get started, and we’re adding a 20% bounty bonus for all … Read more