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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.
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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
ACF Images Search And Insert
Advanced Blocks Pro
Advanced Custom Fields
Advanced Custom Fields Pro
Auto iFrame
Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule
BlockMeister – Block Pattern Builder
Bot for Telegram on WooCommerce
bot-for-telegram-on-woocommerce
Bridge Core
BuddyPress Docs
Category Icon
CM Tooltip Glossary
CMSMasters Content Composer
Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on
Contact Form by Bit Form: Multi Step Form, Calculation Contact Form, Payment Contact Form & Custom Contact Form builder
Contact Form by Supsystic
Contact Form Widget – Contact Query, Contact Page, Form Maker, Query Table
Creates 3D Flipbook, PDF Flipbook in WordPress
CubeWP – All-in-One Dynamic Content Framework
Curator.io
Disc Golf Manager
Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard
Easy Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – ThemeHunk
Easy PayPal Gift Certificate
Easy Social Share Buttons
Elementor Addon Elements
addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder
Elementor Inline SVG
Embed PDF Viewer
Embed videos and respect privacy
Event Calendar
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
FULL – Cliente
GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager
GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor
Happy Addons for Elementor
Hunk Companion
Image Optimizer, Resizer and CDN – Sirv
ImagePress – Image Gallery
Increase upload file size & Maximum Execution Time limit
increase-upload-file-size-maximum-execution-time-limit
IP Loc8
Keep Backup Daily
Language Switcher
Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)
wp-limit-failed-login-attempts
Linkz.ai – Automatic link previews on hover
Marketing and SEO Booster
Maximum Products per User for WooCommerce
maximum-products-per-user-for-woocommerce
Mynx Page Builder
Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Brevo (formely Sendinblue)
Notification for Telegram
Order Attachments for WooCommerce
order-attachments-for-woocommerce
Pedalo Connector
Photo Gallery, Images, Slider in Rbs Image Gallery
PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry
pretix widget
Products, Order & Customers Export for WooCommerce
PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes
QA Analytics – with Heatmaps & Replay, Privacy Friendly
Read more By Adam
Rescue Shortcodes
Restaurant Reservations Widget
Royal Elementor Addons and Templates
SB Random Posts Widget
Secure Custom Fields
SEUR Oficial
ShopLentor – WooCommerce Builder for Elementor & Gutenberg +12 Modules – All in One Solution (formerly WooLentor)
Shortcode For Elementor Templates
shortcode-support-for-elementor-templates
Shortcodes AnyWhere
ShortPixel Image Optimizer – Optimize Images, Convert WebP & AVIF
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
Smooth Gallery Replacement
Social Sharing (by Danny)
Stackable – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks
stackable-ultimate-gutenberg-blocks
Survey Maker
TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy
Tainacan
Talkback
talkback-secure-linkback-protocol
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
User registration & user profile – UserPlus
WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency with WPML
WordPress Comments Import & Export
comments-import-export-woocommerce
WordPress File Upload
WP Builder
WP Helper Premium
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 Ultimate Post Grid
WP Users Masquerade
wp-Monalisa
Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress
Vulnerability Details
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