Earlier this week we became aware that malicious actors are using Wordfence brand image to run a phishing scam on WordPress and Wordfence users, posing as unknown login notifications from their own website while linking to a fake login page, clearly aiming to steal WordPress login credentials. If you have received a suspicious email like … Read more
Last week, there were 62 vulnerabilities disclosed in 1035 WordPress Plugins and 90 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 36 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
Last week, there were 69 vulnerabilities disclosed in 68 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 29 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
“Never Assume Anything” – that is the 4th Guiding Principle written in the Security section of the WordPress Common APIs Handbook for developers. When it comes to WordPress plugin security, assumptions can be dangerous. This became evident when the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered an Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in 14 different email … Read more
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring an ongoing exploit campaign targeting a recently disclosed vulnerability in WooCommerce Payments, a plugin installed on over 600,000 sites. Large-scale attacks against the vulnerability, assigned CVE-2023-28121, began on Thursday, July 14, 2023 and continued over the weekend, peaking at 1.3 million attacks against 157,000 sites on Saturday, … Read more
