100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in AI Engine WordPress Plugin
On October 4th, 2025, we received a submission for a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability in AI Engine, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to extract the bearer token and… Continue Reading →
On October 11th, 2025, we received a submission for an Account Takeover via Email Log Disclosure vulnerability in Post SMTP, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to view… Continue Reading →
On September 25th, 2025, we received a submission for a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in WP Freeio, a WordPress plugin bundled in the Freeio premium theme with more than 1,700 sales. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to… Continue Reading →
On October 3rd, 2025, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an authenticated attacker, with subscriber-level… Continue Reading →
Last month in September 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 374 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… Continue Reading →
Local File Inclusion (LFI) occurs when user-controlled input is used to build a path to a file that is then included by the application. In WordPress (and PHP web applications in general), this means values from $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, or… Continue Reading →
