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Category: WordPress Security
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 18, 2023 to December 31, 2023)
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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 11, 2023 to December 17, 2023)
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus.
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 4, 2023 to December 10, 2023)
🎁 Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza!
Over 100 WordPress Repository Plugins Affected by Shortcode-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
On August 14, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began a research project to find Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Shortcode vulnerabilities in WordPress repository plugins.
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.
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (November 27, 2023 to December 3, 2023)
🎁 Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza!
PSA: Critical POP Chain Allowing Remote Code Execution Patched in WordPress 6.4.2
WordPress 6.4.2 was released today, on December 6, 2023. It includes a patch for a POP chain introduced in version 6.4 that, combined with a separate Object Injection vulnerability, could result in a Critical-Severity vulnerability allowing attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the site.
Update ASAP! Critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload in MW WP Form Allows Malicious Code Execution
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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.
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