Category Archive: Wordfence
This entry was posted in General Security, Wordfence, WordPress Security on June 24, 2020 by Ram Gall 2 Replies
At Wordfence, we take performance seriously on all levels. While speed is one way to measure performance, there are other metrics that are equally important. Over the past year, our Threat Intelligence team has improved our malware scan by leaps and bounds. We wanted to share some of the metrics we use and what they …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on June 22, 2020 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
Defiant, dba Wordfence, is now listed on the Privacy Shield certification list participating in both the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks. The purpose of these frameworks is to allow for the lawful transfer of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States. Two years ago when the General Data Protection …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, Wordfence, WordPress Security on May 11, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 5 Replies
On Monday, May 4, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered two vulnerabilities present in Page Builder by SiteOrigin, a WordPress plugin actively installed on over 1,000,000 sites. Both of these flaws allow attackers to forge requests on behalf of a site administrator and execute malicious code in the administrator’s browser. The attacker needs to …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on April 20, 2020 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
Last fall as wildfires ravaged much of Australia, we were deeply affected by the stories of destruction coming out of numerous communities. As a global company with customers and friends in the region affected by these events, we looked for opportunities to help, much like we did with the WordCamp Asia Cancellation Fee Assistance program. …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, Wordfence on March 11, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 0 Replies
On February 26th, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in Import Export WordPress Users, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. The flaw allowed anybody with subscriber-level access or above to import new users via a CSV file, including administrative-level users. We reached out to the plugin’s developer on February 26th, who responded …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on March 01, 2020 by Mark Maunder 1 Reply
This is an update regarding Wordfence’s community engagement in 2020 along with a recommendation for WordCamps globally and for the global WordPress community. As always, I’m taking a data-driven approach to this post. I present an update from the WHO regarding the containment of COVID-19 in China and what has worked. I then discuss what …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, Wordfence on February 25, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 2 Replies
On January 17th, our Threat Intelligence Team discovered several vulnerabilities in Pricing Table by Supsystic, a WordPress plugin installed on over 40,000 sites. These flaws allowed an unauthenticated user to execute several AJAX actions due to an insecure permissions weakness. Attackers were also able to inject malicious Javascript due to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on February 11, 2020 by Mark Maunder 2 Replies
A few minutes ago it was announced that Wordcamp Asia has been cancelled due to the recent COVID-19 concerns in the region. This was a very tough call, but I believe the right one. To give you some context, I’m going to include an extract from the final part of the World Health Organization Director …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on August 21, 2019 by Matt Barry 15 Replies
Today we are launching a version of Wordfence containing a new feature for sites on hosting providers with read-only file systems such as WP Engine or for environments where multiple web servers are behind a load balancer. This new feature uses a MySQL storage engine for firewall attack data to protect WordPress sites in complex …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on June 18, 2019 by Dan Moen 4 Replies
In February we launched Wordfence Central, an efficient way to manage the security of many WordPress sites in one place. If you have multiple sites and haven’t checked it out yet, you should. It includes a powerful dashboard, a single interface to view and manage security findings across all of your sites and robust new …
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