Last month in February 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1078 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, with validated vulnerabilities responsibly disclosed to vendors, often through the … Read more
Triple Threat Bug Bounty Challenge Hunt High Threat vulnerabilities and earn triple the incentives! Now through April 6, 2026, earn three stacked bonuses on all valid submissions from our ‘High Threat Vulnerabilities’ list: 2x all high threat vulnerability bounties (excluding 5,000,000+ installs) +30% bonus for high threat vulnerabilities in software with 30,000+ active installs (excluding … Read more
On February 23, 2026, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in Smart Slider 3, a WordPress plugin with an estimated more than 800,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an authenticated attacker, with subscriber-level permissions or higher, to read arbitrary files on the server, which may contain sensitive information. … Read more
Triple Threat Bug Bounty Challenge Hunt High Threat vulnerabilities and earn triple the incentives! Now through April 6, 2026, earn three stacked bonuses on all valid submissions from our ‘High Threat Vulnerabilities’ list: 2x all high threat vulnerability bounties (excluding 5,000,000+ installs) +30% bonus for high threat vulnerabilities in software with 30,000+ active installs (excluding … Read more
Triple Threat Bug Bounty Challenge Hunt High Threat vulnerabilities and earn triple the incentives! Now through April 6, 2026, earn three stacked bonuses on all valid submissions from our ‘High Threat Vulnerabilities’ list: 2x all high threat vulnerability bounties (excluding 5,000,000+ installs) +30% bonus for high threat vulnerabilities in software with 30,000+ active installs (excluding … Read more
