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Two PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities Fixed in Essential Blocks

On August 18, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for two PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities in the Essential Blocks plugin for WordPress, a plugin with over 100,000 installations.

Introducing Wordfence CLI: A High Performance Malware Scanner Built for the Command Line

Today, we are incredibly excited to announce the launch of Wordfence CLI: an open source, high performance malware scanner built for the command-line.

Demystifying the WordPress Vulnerability Landscape: 2023 Mid-Year Wordfence Intelligence WordPress Vulnerability Review Leveraging ChatGPT

In the first 6 months of 2023, our team has already added 2,471[1] individual vulnerability records to the Wordfence Intelligence WordPress Vulnerability Database.

Wordfence 7.10.0 Released!

Wordfence remains the number one security plugin of choice for website owners serious about protecting their investment and their customers.

Post Action Report: Bad Firewall Rule Released to WPEngine Customers Wednesday

On Wednesday afternoon a small percentage of WPEngine websites using a paid version of Wordfence experienced a 500 Internal Server Error or white screen on their sites due to an erroneous firewall rule that we released.

Wordfence Intelligence: Because Community Created Vulnerabilities Are Community Property

Last August, at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas, we launched Wordfence Intelligence, a product designed to provide large enterprise customers with rich IP threat data, malware signatures, malware hashes, and vulnerability data to help keep enterprise customers and networks secure.
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Wordfence WooCommerce 2FA: Set Up This New Feature To Protect Your Customers

On February 15, we made the exciting announcement that the latest release of Wordfence, version 7.9.0, includes a new feature: WooCommerce 2FA (two-factor authentication) for customer level users.
The WordPress Ecosystem is Becoming More Secure with Responsible Disclosure Becoming More Common

The WordPress Ecosystem is Becoming More Secure with Responsible Disclosure Becoming More Common

The Wordfence 2022 State of WordPress Security Report was released on January 24th, 2023.

Wordfence Adds Two Factor Auth for WooCommerce Customers

Wordfence 7.9.0 has been released and it includes a very exciting feature for WooCommerce sites and other WordPress sites wanting to make two factor authentication (2fa) available to their site users or members.
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PSA: Your Site Isn’t Hacked By This Bitcoin Scam, Keep the Money

On January 19th, 2023, a member of the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team received an email from their personal blog, claiming the site had been hacked, and we received two reports from Wordfence users who received the same message.