Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 7, 2024 to October 13, 2024)
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Last week, there were 104 vulnerabilities disclosed in 101 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 39 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected.
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New Firewall Rules Deployed Last Week
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team reviews each vulnerability to determine impact and severity, along with assessing the likelihood of exploitation, to verify that the Wordfence Firewall provides sufficient protection.
The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:
- Hunk Companion <= 1.8.4 – Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation
- WAF-RULE-754 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.
Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response customers received this protection immediately, while users still running the free version of Wordfence will receive this enhanced protection after a 30 day delay.
Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week
Patch Status | Number of Vulnerabilities |
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Patched | 73 |
Unpatched | 31 |
Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week
Severity Rating | Number of Vulnerabilities |
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Medium Severity | 81 |
High Severity | 14 |
Critical Severity | 9 |
Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week
Vulnerability Type by CWE | Number of Vulnerabilities |
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') | 46 |
Missing Authorization | 18 |
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 7 |
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') | 6 |
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor | 5 |
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') | 5 |
Deserialization of Untrusted Data | 4 |
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel | 2 |
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') | 2 |
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') | 2 |
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type | 2 |
Improper Input Validation | 1 |
Improper Privilege Management | 1 |
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference | 1 |
Incorrect Privilege Assignment | 1 |
Use of Less Trusted Source | 1 |
Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week
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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week
Software Name | Software Slug |
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2D Tag Cloud | 2d-tag-cloud-widget-by-sujin |
ACF Images Search And Insert | acf-images-search-and-insert |
Advanced Blocks Pro | advanced-blocks-pro |
Advanced Custom Fields | advanced-custom-fields |
Advanced Custom Fields Pro | advanced-custom-fields-pro |
Auto iFrame | auto-iframe |
Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule | wp-time-capsule |
BlockMeister – Block Pattern Builder | blockmeister |
Bot for Telegram on WooCommerce | bot-for-telegram-on-woocommerce |
Bridge Core | bridge-core |
BuddyPress Docs | buddypress-docs |
Category Icon | category-icon |
CM Tooltip Glossary | enhanced-tooltipglossary |
CMSMasters Content Composer | cmsmasters-content-composer |
Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on | contact-form-7-paypal-add-on |
Contact Form by Bit Form: Multi Step Form, Calculation Contact Form, Payment Contact Form & Custom Contact Form builder | bit-form |
Contact Form by Supsystic | contact-form-by-supsystic |
Contact Form Widget – Contact Query, Contact Page, Form Maker, Query Table | new-contact-form-widget |
Creates 3D Flipbook, PDF Flipbook in WordPress | create-flipbook-from-pdf |
CubeWP – All-in-One Dynamic Content Framework | cubewp-framework |
Curator.io | curatorio |
Disc Golf Manager | disc-golf-manager |
Download Manager | download-manager |
Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard | download-plugins-dashboard |
Easy Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – ThemeHunk | themehunk-megamenu-plus |
Easy PayPal Gift Certificate | paypal-gift-certificate |
Easy Social Share Buttons | easy-social-share-buttons |
Elementor Addon Elements | addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder |
Elementor Inline SVG | inline-svg-elementor |
Embed PDF Viewer | embed-pdf-viewer |
Embed videos and respect privacy | video-embed-privacy |
Event Calendar | event-calendars |
Export Products, Order & Customers for WooCommerce | export-woocommerce |
External featured image from bing | external-featured-image-from-bing |
Featured Posts with Multiple Custom Groups (FPMCG) | featured-posts-with-multiple-custom-groups-fpmcg |
Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List | mailchimp-wp |
FULL – Cliente | full-customer |
GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager | gdpr-consent-manager |
GutenKit – Page Builder Blocks, Patterns, and Templates for Gutenberg Block Editor | gutenkit-blocks-addon |
Happy Addons for Elementor | happy-elementor-addons |
Hunk Companion | hunk-companion |
Image Optimizer, Resizer and CDN – Sirv | sirv |
ImagePress – Image Gallery | image-gallery |
Import Content in WordPress & WooCommerce with Excel | content-excel-importer |
Import Users & Customers | Export Users with Excel for WordPress & WooCommerce | users-import-export-with-excel-for-wp |
Increase upload file size & Maximum Execution Time limit | increase-upload-file-size-maximum-execution-time-limit |
IP Loc8 | ip-loc8 |
Keep Backup Daily | keep-backup-daily |
Language Switcher | language-switcher |
Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) | wp-limit-failed-login-attempts |
Linkz.ai – Automatic link previews on hover | linkz-ai |
Marketing and SEO Booster | marketing-and-seo-booster |
Maximum Products per User for WooCommerce | maximum-products-per-user-for-woocommerce |
Mynx Page Builder | mynx-page-builder |
Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Brevo (formely Sendinblue) | mailin |
Notification for Telegram | notification-for-telegram |
Order Attachments for WooCommerce | order-attachments-for-woocommerce |
Pedalo Connector | pedalo-connector |
Photo Gallery, Images, Slider in Rbs Image Gallery | robo-gallery |
PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry | powerpress |
pretix widget | pretix-widget |
Product Excel Import & Export for WooCommerce | woo-product-excel-importer |
Product Excel Import Export & Bulk Edit for WooCommerce | webd-woocommerce-product-excel-importer-bulk-edit |
Products Stock Manager with Excel for WooCommerce Inventory | products-stock-manager-with-excel |
PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes | revisionary |
QA Analytics – with Heatmaps & Replay, Privacy Friendly | qa-heatmap-analytics |
Read more By Adam | read-more |
Rescue Shortcodes | rescue-shortcodes |
Restaurant Reservations Widget | restaurantconnect-reswidget |
Royal Elementor Addons and Templates | royal-elementor-addons |
SB Random Posts Widget | sb-random-posts-widget |
Secure Custom Fields | advanced-custom-fields |
SEUR Oficial | seur |
ShopLentor – WooCommerce Builder for Elementor & Gutenberg +17 Modules – All in One Solution (formerly WooLentor) | woolentor-addons |
Shortcode For Elementor Templates | shortcode-support-for-elementor-templates |
Shortcodes AnyWhere | shortcodes-anywhere |
ShortPixel Image Optimizer – Optimize Images, Convert WebP & AVIF | shortpixel-image-optimiser |
Simple Baseball Scoreboard | simple-baseball-scoreboard |
Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel, Post Slider, Post Timeline, Post Table, and List Category Posts, Latest Posts, Recent Posts, Popular Posts and More | post-carousel |
Smooth Gallery Replacement | smooth-gallery-replacement |
Social Sharing (by Danny) | dvk-social-sharing |
Stackable – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks | stackable-ultimate-gutenberg-blocks |
Survey Maker | survey-maker |
TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy | tablepress |
Tainacan | tainacan |
Talkback | talkback-secure-linkback-protocol |
Telecash Ricaricaweb | telecash-ricaricaweb |
The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce | the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder |
TS Poll – Survey, Versus Poll, Image Poll, Video Poll | poll-wp |
User registration & user profile – UserPlus | userplus |
Visualizer: Tables and Charts Manager for WordPress | visualizer |
WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency with WPML | woocommerce-multilingual |
WordPress Comments Import & Export | comments-import-export-woocommerce |
WordPress File Upload | wp-file-upload |
WP Builder | cssjockey-add-ons |
WP Helper Premium | wp-helper-lite |
WP Post Author – Boost Your Blog's Engagement with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, Post Rating System, and Custom User Registration Form Builder | wp-post-author |
WP Ultimate Post Grid | wp-ultimate-post-grid |
WP Users Masquerade | wp-users-masquerade |
wp-Monalisa | wp-monalisa |
Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress | youzify |
Vulnerability Details
Please note that if you run the Wordfence plugin on your WordPress site, with the scanner enabled, you should’ve already been notified if your site was affected by any of these vulnerabilities. If you’d like to receive real-time notifications whenever a vulnerability is added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, check out our Slack and HTTP Webhook Integration, which is completely free to utilize.
As a reminder, Wordfence has curated an industry leading vulnerability database with all known WordPress core, theme, and plugin vulnerabilities known as Wordfence Intelligence.
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 through our Bug Bounty Program, and by monitoring varying sources to capture all publicly available WordPress vulnerability information and adding additional context where we can.
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