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Wordfence is a global team of WordPress security analysts, threat researchers, software engineers, and support staff. We are the leaders in our field, and we focus exclusively on securing WordPress websites, and on WordPress security research. We provide 24-hour service, 365 days a year for mission-critical websites, with a 1 hour response time via Wordfence Response. To learn more about our products, check out our Product Comparison Page.
Wordfence leads the industry in login security controls, including brute force protection, XMLRPC protection, reCAPTCHA to block automated attacks, and IP access control.
Centralized security events and template-based security configuration management, 100% free. Our customers constantly tell us that Wordfence Central is too good to be true. Even users of the free version of Wordfence get full access to Wordfence Central at no cost.
Wordfence Care and Response customers receive hands-on support to install, configure, and optimize Wordfence along with continuous security monitoring from our team. Wordfence Response customers get 24/7 support and monitoring with a 1-hour response time.
Two-factor authentication or 2FA has become a standard requirement for any secure service. Wordfence provides robust 2FA for your admins and users using secure open standards.
Wordfence maintains the largest WordPress-specific malware database in the world. Using this intelligence trove, we produce malware signatures to block intrusion attempts, detect malicious activity, and provide robust security for your WordPress site.
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team continuously discovers new vulnerabilities in WordPress core, plugins, and themes. We immediately release new firewall rules that protect against these vulnerabilities, which are deployed in real-time to our paid customers providing the best available intrusion prevention for WordPress.
Our unique data is what makes Wordfence so effective. Premium, Care, and Response customers receive real-time updates to protection and detection rules.
Prior to joining the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, I spent several years as a vulnerability analyst, responsible for collecting, analyzing, and curating every publicly disclosed vulnerability. This meant collecting vulnerability information from almost a hundred different, disparate sources. As you can imagine, this was quite the challenge as each and every data source came with …
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Last week, there were 66 vulnerabilities disclosed in 56 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 34 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 …
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Today, on June 29, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team became aware of an unpatched privilege escalation vulnerability being actively exploited in Ultimate Member, a WordPress plugin installed on over 200,000 sites, through our vulnerability changelog monitoring we do to ensure the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database has the most up to date and accurate information. …
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Last week, there were 84 vulnerabilities disclosed in 76 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 42 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 …
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On May 28, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin, which is actively installed on more than 30,000 WordPress websites. The vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to any account on …
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On June 5, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified, and began the responsible disclosure process, for an Arbitrary User Password Change vulnerability in LearnDash LMS plugin, a WordPress plugin that is actively installed on more than 100,000 WordPress websites according to our estimates. This vulnerability makes it possible for any user with an existing …
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