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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (November 6, 2023 to November 12, 2023)

🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Over the next 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus.

Fostering Innovation in Web Security

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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 30, 2023 to November 5, 2023)

🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Over the next 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus.

Wordfence Launches Bug Bounty Program to Fund WordPress Security Research and Showcase Researchers

At Defiant Inc and Wordfence, our mission is to Secure the Web.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 23, 2023 to October 29, 2023)

Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 102 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 37 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.

Know Your Malware Part Two – Hacky Obfuscation Techniques

In the first post in this series, we covered common PHP encoding techniques and how they’re used by malware to hide from security analysts and scanners.

Announcing Vulnerability Scanning in Wordfence CLI 2.0.1 “Voodoo Child”

Note: If you’re a WordPress user, we recommend the Wordfence Security Plugin which provides a robust and complete set of security controls for WordPress websites.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 16, 2023 to October 22, 2023)

Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 95 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 39 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.
Several Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in AI ChatBot Plugin for WordPress

Several Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in AI ChatBot Plugin for WordPress

On September 28, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for multiple vulnerabilities in AI ChatBot, a WordPress plugin with over 4,000 active installations.

Wordfence Reviews and Where to Find Them

Just a quick note. If you’re looking for objective Wordfence reviews, you can find them on the official WordPress plugin repository in the Wordfence reviews section which is linked to from the Wordfence entry in the official WordPress repository.