Wordfence Intelligence CE Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (Feb 20, 2023 to Feb 26, 2023)

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Wordfence has curated an industry leading vulnerability database with all known WordPress core, theme, and plugin vulnerabilities known as Wordfence Intelligence Community Edition. This database is continuously updated, maintained, and populated by Wordfence’s highly credentialed and experienced vulnerability researchers through in-house vulnerability research, vulnerability researchers submitting directly to us using our CVE Request form, and … Read more

Wordfence WooCommerce 2FA: Set Up This New Feature To Protect Your Customers

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On February 15, we made the exciting announcement that the latest release of Wordfence, version 7.9.0, includes a new feature: WooCommerce 2FA (two-factor authentication) for customer level users. What does this mean for you as an e-commerce store operator? And how can you start using this feature? Let’s dive in. Why Customer Level E-Commerce Users … Read more

People of WordPress: Hauwa Abashiya

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This month we feature Hauwa Abashiya, a project manager in Nigeria and the UK, whose passion for community support led her to an adventure in open source. The People of WordPress series features inspiring stories of how people’s lives can change for the better through WordPress and its global community of contributors. As we travel through life, … Read more

The WordPress Ecosystem is Becoming More Secure with Responsible Disclosure Becoming More Common

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The Wordfence 2022 State of WordPress Security Report was released on January 24th, 2023. One area that we reviewed in this report were the vulnerabilities disclosed in 2022. Keeping in mind that some vulnerabilities affected multiple plugins, themes, and WordPress core, a total of 2,370 vulnerabilities were reported in 2022. The top five vulnerability categories … Read more