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4 Million WordPress Sites affected by Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache Plugin

On August 14, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache plugin, which is actively installed on more than 4,000,000 WordPress websites, making it the most popular cache plugin.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 9, 2023 to October 15, 2023)

Last week, there were 103 vulnerabilities disclosed in 85 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes, with 7 of those being in WordPress Core, that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 46 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.

PSA: Critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Royal Elementor Addons and Templates Being Actively Exploited

Update: Wordfence has released a malware detection signature for wp.ph$p to Wordfence Premium, Wordfence Care, Wordfence Response, and the paid tiers of Wordfence CLI as of Monday, October 16, 2023.

WordPress 6.3.2 Security Release – What You Need to Know

WordPress Core 6.3.2 was released today, on October 12, 2023. It includes a number of security fixes and additional hardening against commonly exploited vulnerabilities.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 2, 2023 to October 8, 2023)

Last week, there were 92 vulnerabilities disclosed in 88 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.

Backdoor Masquerading as Legitimate Plugin

As part of our product lineup, we offer security monitoring and malware removal services to our Wordfence Care and Response customers.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 25, 2023 to October 1, 2023)

Last week, there were 90 vulnerabilities disclosed in 68 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 31 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.

Know your Malware – A Beginner’s Guide to Encoding Techniques Used to Obfuscate Malware

With the launch of Wordfence CLI, our high performance security scanner that can detect the vast majority of PHP malware targeting WordPress, Wordfence continues to emphasize the importance of malware detection and remediation.

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.

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 11, 2023 to September 17, 2023)

Last week, there were 55 vulnerabilities disclosed in 46 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 15 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week.