Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 18, 2023 to September 24, 2023)

Last week, there were 42 vulnerabilities disclosed in 37 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 10 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:

• Super Store Finder <= 6.9.2 – Unauthenticated Email Creation/Sending

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.

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Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Patch Status	Number of Vulnerabilities
Unpatched	5
Patched	37

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Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating	Number of Vulnerabilities
Low Severity	0
Medium Severity	37
High Severity	5
Critical Severity	0

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Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Vulnerability Type by CWE	Number of Vulnerabilities
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)	21
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)	8
Missing Authorization	6
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’)	2
Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File	1
Information Exposure	1
Deserialization of Untrusted Data	1
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)	1
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key	1

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Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name	Number of Vulnerabilities
Lana Codes (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)	11
Marco Wotschka (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)	3
Ivan Kuzymchak (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher)	3
Do Xuan Trung	1
Skalucy	1
Zeyad Alshahrani	1
Etharus	1
JackYu	1
Malek Althubiany	1
Nguyen Xuan Chien	1

 

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

Software Name	Software Slug
Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads	ad-inserter
Anchor Episodes Index (Spotify for Podcasters)	anchor-episodes-index
Astra Bulk Edit	astra-bulk-edit
Brands for WooCommerce	brands-for-woocommerce
Chat Button: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger Chat, Telegram Chat, WeChat, Line Chat, Discord Chat for Customer Support Chat with floating Chat Widget	bit-assist
Checkfront Online Booking System	checkfront-wp-booking
Comment Blacklist Updater	comment-blacklist-updater
Comments – wpDiscuz	wpdiscuz
Connect Matomo (WP-Matomo, WP-Piwik)	wp-piwik
Contact Form by FormGet – Best Form Builder Plugin for WordPress	formget-contact-form
Copy Anything to Clipboard	copy-the-code
DoFollow Case by Case	dofollow-case-by-case
Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for WooCommerce	drag-and-drop-multiple-file-upload-for-woocommerce
Easy Registration Forms	easy-registration-forms
Inactive Logout	inactive-logout
Interactive Contact Form and Multi Step Form Builder with Drag & Drop Editor – Funnelforms Free	funnelforms-free
Leaflet Map	leaflet-map
Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, and Cookie Notice Generator	legal-pages
Media Library Assistant	media-library-assistant
Memberlite Shortcodes	memberlite-shortcodes
Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid	wpvivid-backuprestore
Payment gateway per Product for WooCommerce	woocommerce-product-payments
Pop ups, WordPress Exit Intent Popup, Email Pop Up, Lightbox Pop Up, Spin the Wheel, Contact Form Builder – Poptin	poptin
Pre-Publish Checklist	pre-publish-checklist
School Management System – WPSchoolPress	wpschoolpress
Simple Cloudflare Turnstile – CAPTCHA Alternative	simple-cloudflare-turnstile
Statify – Extended Evaluation	extended-evaluation-for-statify
Super Store Finder	superstorefinder-wp
Table of Contents Plus	table-of-contents-plus
WP Discord Invite	wp-discord-invite
WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce	wp-event-manager
WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses	wp-mailto-links
Weaver Xtreme Theme Support	weaverx-theme-support
Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode	coming-soon
Widget Responsive for Youtube	youtube-widget-responsive
WordPress Charts	wp-charts
iPanorama 360 – WordPress Virtual Tour Builder	ipanorama-360-virtual-tour-builder-lite

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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.

wpDiscuz <= 7.6.5 – Unauthenticated SQL Injection

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Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary Directory Deletion via Path Traversal

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iPanorama 360 – WordPress Virtual Tour Builder <= 1.7.3 – Authenticated (Admin+) SQL injection

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Weaver Xtreme Theme Support <= 6.3.0 – Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via Imported File

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Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload for WooCommerce <= 1.1.0 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Funnelforms Free <= 3.3.9 – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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WordPress Charts <= 0.7.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Leaflet Map <= 3.3.0 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Widget Responsive for Youtube <= 1.6.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Poptin <= 1.3 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Simple Cloudflare Turnstile <= 1.23.1 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Memberlite Shortcodes <= 1.3.8 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Anchor Episodes Index (Spotify for Podcasters) <= 2.1.7 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Media Library Assistant <= 3.10 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Copy Anything to Clipboard <= 2.6.4 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses <= 3.1.3 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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WP-Matomo Integration (WP-Piwik) <= 1.0.28 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Contact Form by FormGet <= 5.5.5 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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WPSchoolPress <= 2.2.4 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Payment gateway per Product for WooCommerce <= 3.2.7 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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WP Discord Invite <= 2.4.1 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via webhook

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Super Store Finder <= 6.9.2 – Unauthenticated Email Creation/Sending

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Statify – Extended Evaluation <= 2.6.3 – Authenticated (Admin+) CSV Injection

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Comment Blacklist Updater <= 1.1.0 – Cross-Site Request Forgery via update_blacklist_manual

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Ad Inserter <= 2.7.30 – Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via ai_ajax

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Pre-Publish Checklist <= 1.1.1 – Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Post ‘_ppc_meta_key’ Update

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Inactive Logout <= 3.2.2 – Missing Authorization

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Ad Inserter <= 2.7.30 – Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via ai-debug-processing-fe

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Table of Contents Plus <= 2302 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Bit Assist <= 1.1.9 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.89 – Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce <= 3.1.37.1 – Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Astra Bulk Edit <= 1.2.7 – Missing Authorization

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Website Builder by SeedProd <= 6.15.13.1 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

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Easy Registration Forms <= 2.1.1 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure via Shortcode

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DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.4.1 Cross-Site Request Forgery via getEmail and getUrl

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Brands for WooCommerce <= 3.8.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Legal Pages <= 1.3.7 – Missing Authorization on ‘deleteLegalTemplate’

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Inactive Logout <= 3.2.2 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Brands for WooCommerce <= 3.8.2.2 – Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Manipulation and Information Retrieval

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Checkfront Online Booking System <= 3.6 – Cross-Site Request Forgery

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