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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.
Login Security
Wordfence leads the industry in login security controls, including brute force protection, XMLRPC protection, reCAPTCHA to block automated attacks, and IP access control.
Centralized Management
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.
24/7 Incident Response Team
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
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.
Malware Scan
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 Firewall
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.
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Total Attacks Blocked
7,125,659,076
Malicious IPs Blocklisted
65,943
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Millions of Attacks Target Tatsu Builder Plugin
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking a large-scale attack against a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Tatsu Builder, which is tracked by CVE-2021-25094 and was publicly disclosed on March 24, 2022 by an independent security researcher. The issue is present in vulnerable versions of both the free and premium Tatsu Builder plugin. Tatsu …
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PHP Object Injection Vulnerability in Booking Calendar Plugin
On April 18, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for an Object Injection vulnerability in the Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress, which has over 60,000 installations. We received a response the same day and sent over our full disclosure early the next day, on April 19, 2022. A patched version …
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Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Elementor
On March 29, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the disclosure process for a critical vulnerability in the Elementor plugin that allowed any authenticated user to upload arbitrary PHP code. Elementor is one of the most popular WordPress plugins and is installed on over 5 million websites. We sent our disclosure to the official …
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Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Patched in SiteGround Security Plugin
On March 10, 2022 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability we discovered in “SiteGround Security”, a WordPress plugin that is installed on over 400,000 sites. This flaw makes it possible for attackers to gain administrative user access on vulnerable sites when two-factor authentication (2FA) is enabled but not …
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Reflected XSS in Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk
Update – after this article was published, Denis Shagimuratov of CleanTalk reached out to us on Twitter. It appears that they didn’t receive our disclosure because our contact at the company was no longer the correct recipient for this type of issue. On February 15, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team finished research on two …
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Increase In Malware Sightings on GoDaddy Managed Hosting
Today, March 15, 2022, The Wordfence Incident Response team alerted our Threat Intelligence team to an increase in infected websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, which includes MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe Managed WordPress sites. These affected sites have a nearly identical backdoor prepended to the wp-config.php file. Of …
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