Wordfence Argus Discovers High Severity Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in Duplicator

On August 30, 2026, during internal research, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team discovered an Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Duplicator and Duplicator Pro. Duplicator has more than one million active installations. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-82814 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 (High). This is a second-order vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker … Read more

PSA: PHP Security Updates Available for Two Critical Vulnerabilities, Update Now

The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The PHP project says all PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately. We recommend making sure every site you manage is running a patched version of PHP as … Read more

600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by SQL Injection Vulnerability in Backuply WordPress Plugin

On September 17th, 2026, we received a submission for a Second-Order SQL Injection vulnerability in Backuply, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to store a malicious SQL payload that is executed when an administrator later restores a database backup, … Read more

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 5, 2026 to October 11, 2026)

Last week, there were 655 vulnerabilities disclosed in 406 WordPress Plugins and 100 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 236 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 … Read more