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Today, we are incredibly excited to announce the launch of Wordfence CLI: an open source, high performance malware scanner built for the command-line. With Wordfence CLI you can detect malware and other indicators of compromise on a host system by running an extremely fast scanner that is at home in the Linux command line environment. […]

A question we frequently get from new users as they’re onboarding is: why does WordPress get hacked? Of course, this question makes sense in this context; it’s extremely frustrating to find out that your WordPress website has been compromised and you need to tackle an infection or increase security controls. Surely you’d want to understand […]

Last week, there were 64 vulnerabilities disclosed in 67 WordPress Plugins and 10 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. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected. Our mission with […]

On August 10, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Donation Forms by Charitable plugin, which is actively installed on more than 10,000 WordPress websites. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to grant themselves administrative privileges by supplying a role […]

As part of our product lineup, we offer security monitoring and malware removal services to our Wordfence Care and Response customers. In the event of a security incident, our incident response team will investigate the root cause, find and remove malware from your site, and help with other complications that may arise as a result […]

Last week, there were 86 vulnerabilities disclosed in 68 WordPress Plugins and 3 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 36 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 […]

Last week on August 8th, 2023, Adobe released a critical security patch for Adobe Commerce and the Magento Open Source CMS. The patch provides fixes for three vulnerabilities which affect the popular ecommerce platforms. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and arbitrary file system read. Affected versions of Magento Open Source […]

On June 8, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in WebToffee’s Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce plugin, which is actively installed on more than 10,000 WordPress websites. This vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to gain access to the accounts of users […]

Last week, there were 64 vulnerabilities disclosed in 66 WordPress Plugins and 3 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 32 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 […]