Last week, there were 78 vulnerabilities disclosed in 62 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 59 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
On May 8, 2026, PRISM, Wordfence Threat Intelligence’s autonomous vulnerability research platform, discovered a critical Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Burst Statistics, a WordPress plugin with more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability was introduced in the code on April 23, 2026, discovered just 15 days later, and patched 19 days later, highlighting the positive impact … Read more
Last week, there were 75 vulnerabilities disclosed in 59 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 56 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
On March 21st, 2026, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Read and an SQL Injection vulnerability in Avada Builder, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 1,000,000 active installations. The arbitrary file read vulnerability can be used by authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read arbitrary files on the server, which may … Read more
Last week, there were 87 vulnerabilities disclosed in 198 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 61 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
