On July 17th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing a critical vulnerability chain that can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to create an administrator account and then execute code through normal administrator capabilities, such as uploading a plugin. The chain consists of two vulnerabilities: an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability identified … Read more
On July 28th, 2026, our autonomous AI vulnerability intelligence agent, Wordfence PRISM, identified a critical Authentication Bypass backdoor in Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, a WordPress plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations, less than two hours after the malicious code was introduced. This is not a conventional coding mistake, it’s a supply chain attack that has … Read more
Three years ago we launched a bug bounty program to accelerate WordPress security research, and it has been incredibly successful and has since secured the WordPress community against 9,727 vulnerabilities reported through our program. We have thus far awarded a total of $981,251 to researchers around the world to reward the increased security they provide … Read more
Last week, there were 75 vulnerabilities disclosed in WordPress Core, 68 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 50 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our … Read more
On Friday, July 17, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released security updates for WordPress Core addressing two vulnerabilities that, when chained together, can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The chain, now commonly referred to as wp2shell, was discovered and reported by Adam Kues of Assetnote / Searchlight Cyber, and we want to thank him … Read more
