This entry was posted in General Security, Wordfence, WordPress Security on September 16, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 6 Replies
Yesterday, September 15, 2020, the Wordfence Live team covered The Hacker Motive: What Attackers Are Doing with Your Hacked Site. This companion blog post reviews the motives we discussed live during Wordfence Live and dives deeper into the minds of attackers. You can watch the video of Wordfence Live below. Timestamps You can click on …
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This entry was posted in General Security, Wordfence, WordPress Security on August 19, 2020 by Chloe Chamberland 15 Replies
Yesterday, August 18, 2020, the Wordfence Live team covered 10 WordPress Security Mistakes You Might be Making. This companion blog post reviews the recommendations we provided to avoid these mistakes and better secure your WordPress environment. You can watch the video of Wordfence Live below. Timestamps You can click on these timestamps to jump around …
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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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