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Last week, there were 139 vulnerabilities disclosed in 105 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 47 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our mission with […]

On May 11 2023, Essential Addons for Elementor, a WordPress plugin with over one million active installations, released a patch for a critical vulnerability that made it possible for any unauthenticated user to reset arbitrary user passwords, including user accounts with administrative-level access. This vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by security researcher Rafie Muhammed. […]

On May 16, 2023, the WordPress core team released a crucial update — WordPress 6.2.1. This latest security and maintenance release addresses a number of bug fixes and vulnerability patches, including an unauthenticated Directory Traversal vulnerability, unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability, and several other lower-severity vulnerabilities. To mitigate risk, we highly recommend verifying that your WordPress […]

On May 16, 2023, the WordPress core team released WordPress 6.2.1, which contains patches for 5 vulnerabilities, including a Medium Severity Directory Traversal vulnerability, a Medium-Severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability, and several lower-severity vulnerabilities. These patches have been backported to every version of WordPress since 4.1. WordPress has supported automatic core updates for security releases since […]

It’s not often that we get the opportunity to write about website defacements on this blog. Defacements — where a website homepage is replaced with a hacker logo or some sort of political or religious message — are usually fairly run-of-the-mill and not particularly interesting. However, we’ve recently observed a rash of website defacements that […]

As a website owner (and frequent website visitor), you might have encountered the notorious ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR at least once. This Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) error occurs when the browser fails to establish a secure connection with the website, usually due to issues with the website’s SSL certificate or its configuration or the client’s browser. The error […]

Last week, there were 58 vulnerabilities disclosed in 43 WordPress Plugins and 3 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 27 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our mission with […]

In November, 2022, my colleague Ben Martin described how hackers were using zipped files and encrypted WordPress options stored in the database to inject SocGholish scripts into compromised WordPress sites. A bit later, we documented minor changes in the way this malware worked. By the end of March, 2023, we started noticing a new wave […]