Last week, there were 224 vulnerabilities disclosed in 177 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 119 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
In April 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1288 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by the Wordfence… Continue Reading →
Last week, there were 223 vulnerabilities disclosed in 175 WordPress Plugins and 6 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 88 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
The Importance of SSL in Today’s Web Environment It’s become commonplace for a majority of internet users to share personal information on the internet. With the disregard for protecting personal data becoming second nature, how do we protect ourselves and… Continue Reading →
