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Spring into Action! Earn up to $10,000 with our Extended Bug Bounty Program Extravaganza through Memorial Day!

Spring into action and kick-start your spring cleaning with a tech twist! We’re excited to announce the extension of our Bug Bounty Extravaganza through Memorial Day, May 27th, 2024. Now, you have a golden opportunity to earn up to $10,000 for reporting vulnerabilities in WordPress software over the next three months. It’s the ideal moment …
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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 29, 2024 to February 4, 2024)

🎉 Did you know we’re running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again?

Our Bug Bounty Program Extravaganza is Back and it’s Longer This Time – Earn up to $10,000 for Vulnerabilities in WordPress Software!

At Wordfence our mission is to Secure The Web. WordPress powers over 40% of the Web, and Wordfence secures over 4 million WordPress websites.

PSA: High Severity File Upload Vulnerability in Elementor Patched

On December 6, 2023, the Wordfence team noticed a changelog entry for version 3.18.1 of Elementor, a WordPress plugin installed on nearly 9 million sites.

PSA: Fake CVE-2023-45124 Phishing Scam Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor Plugin

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team has recently been informed of a phishing campaign targeting WordPress users.

Fostering Innovation in Web Security

I’ve always created growth by focusing on free. It started back in 2003 when I launched WorkZoo in London.

Announcing Vulnerability Scanning in Wordfence CLI 2.0.1 “Voodoo Child”

Note: If you’re a WordPress user, we recommend the Wordfence Security Plugin which provides a robust and complete set of security controls for WordPress websites.

Wordfence Reviews and Where to Find Them

Just a quick note. If you’re looking for objective Wordfence reviews, you can find them on the official WordPress plugin repository in the Wordfence reviews section which is linked to from the Wordfence entry in the official WordPress repository.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 9, 2023 to October 15, 2023)

Last week, there were 103 vulnerabilities disclosed in 85 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes, with 7 of those being in WordPress Core, that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 46 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.

WordPress 6.3.2 Security Release – What You Need to Know

WordPress Core 6.3.2 was released today, on October 12, 2023. It includes a number of security fixes and additional hardening against commonly exploited vulnerabilities.

Wordfence Research and News