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Wordfence Research and News
Category: WordPress Security
Ten Password Mistakes That Could Get Your WordPress Site Hacked
A few months ago on Wordfence Live, we reviewed some of the worst website hacks we’ve ever seen.
PHP Compromised: What WordPress Users Need to Know
Late Sunday night, on March 28, 2021, Nikita Popov, a core PHP committer, released a statement indicating that two malicious commits had been pushed to the php-src git repository.
Two Vulnerabilities Patched in Facebook for WordPress Plugin
On December 22, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in Facebook for WordPress, formerly known as Official Facebook Pixel, a WordPress plugin installed on over 500,000 sites.
Recently Patched Vulnerability in Thrive Themes Actively Exploited in the Wild
On March 23, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team discovered two recently patched vulnerabilities being actively exploited in Thrive Theme’s “Legacy” Themes and Thrive Theme plugins that were chained together to allow unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on vulnerable WordPress sites.
Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Elementor Impact Over 7 Million Sites
On February 23, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a set of stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in Elementor, a WordPress plugin which “is now actively installed and used on more than 7M websites” according to a recent announcement on the Elementor blog.
Several Vulnerabilities Patched in Tutor LMS Plugin
On December 15, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Tutor LMS, a WordPress plugin installed on over 20,000 sites.
Critical 0-day in The Plus Addons for Elementor Allows Site Takeover
UPDATE 2: As of late March 9th, 2021, the vulnerabilities have been fully patched in version 4.1.7.
Critical Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce Upload Files
On December 29, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was alerted to a potential 0-day vulnerability in the WooCommerce Upload Files plugin, an add-on for WooCommerce with over 5,000 installations.
Medium Severity Vulnerability Patched in User Profile Picture Plugin
On February 15, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in User Profile Picture, a WordPress plugin installed on over 60,000 sites.
One Million Sites Affected: Four Severe Vulnerabilities Patched in Ninja Forms
On January 20, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed four vulnerabilities in Ninja Forms, a WordPress plugin used by over one million sites.
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