Wordfence Intelligence CE Weekly Vulnerability Report (1-30-2023 to 2-5-2023)

In case you missed it, Wordfence has curated an industry leading vulnerability database with all known WordPress core, theme and, plugin vulnerabilities known as Wordfence Intelligence Community Edition. This database is continuously updated, maintained, and populated by Wordfences highly...

WordPress Qubely – Advanced Gutenberg Blocks Plugin <= 1.8.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Qubely – Advanced Gutenberg Blocks Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.8.4 Fixed in 1.8.5 OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2023-0376 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 6.5 Developer Claim ownership PSID 1329c46c6231 Credits...

WordPress Quick Restaurant 2.0.2 XSS / CSRF / IDOR / Missing Authorization Vulnerabilities

On January 16, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Quick Restaurant Menu, a WordPress plugin that allows users to set up restaurant menus on their sites. This plugin is vulnerable to missing authorization, insecure direct object reference,...

WordPress Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Plugin <= 2.10.0 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control

Software Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.10.0 Fixed in 2.10.1 OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Broken Access Control CVE N/A Patch priority High CVSS severity High 6.5 Developer Claim ownership PSID 245cc6c0d18f Credits Wordfence Required...

Krisp: SQL Injection + Insecure Deserialization leads to Remote Code Execution on https://krisp.ai

The tenweb-speed-optimizer WordPress plugin prior to version 2.12.22 was vulnerable to unauthenticated SQL injection in /wp-json/tenwebio/v2/compress-one, which could be exploited to gain remote code execution by chaining it with insecure deserialization...

WordPress MainWP Wordfence Extension Plugin <= 4.0.7 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control

Software MainWP Wordfence Extension Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 4.0.7 Fixed in 4.0.8 OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Broken Access Control CVE CVE-2023-22699 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 5.4 Developer Claim ownership PSID aa51573e0a8b Credits Dave Jong...

WordPress MainWP Wordfence Extension Plugin <= 4.0.7 is vulnerable to Settings Change

Software MainWP Wordfence Extension Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 4.0.7 Fixed in 4.0.8 OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Settings Change CVE CVE-2023-23669 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 5.4 Developer Claim ownership PSID ad99cab21d6e Credits Dave Jong Patchsta...

Eleven Vulnerabilities Patched in Royal Elementor Addons

On December 23, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a set of 11 vulnerabilities in Royal Elementor Addons, a WordPress plugin with over 100,000 installations. The plugin developers responded on December 26, and we sent over the full...

Wordfence Security Plugin for WordPress < 7.6.0 Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The WordPress Wordfence Security Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. No source data...

PSA: YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium Plugin Exploited in the Wild

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking exploits targeting a Critical Severity Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium, a plugin with over 50,000 installations according to the vendor. The vulnerability, reported by security researcher Dave Jong...

Wordfence Launches Free Vulnerability Database For Commercial Use – And Launches Security Portal

Today we are incredibly excited to announce that Wordfence is launching an entirely free vulnerability database API and web interface, available for commercial use by hosting companies, security organizations, threat analysts, security researchers, and the WordPress user community. This is part o...

Spikes in Attacks Serve as a Reminder to Update Plugins

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team continually monitors trends in the attack data we collect. Occasionally an unusual trend will arise from this data, and we have spotted one such trend standing out over the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. and the first weekend in December. Attack attempts...

Wordfence 7.8.0 Is Out! Here Is What Is Included

Wordfence 7.8.0 is out! A huge thanks to our quality assurance team, our team of developers and our ops team for planning, implementing and releasing Wordfence 7.8.0. This release has several fixes to make Wordfence even more robust, and includes a fundamental change in the way our signup works...

Missing Authorization Vulnerability in Blog2Social Plugin

On October 5, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a Missing Authorization vulnerability in Blog2Social, a WordPress plugin installed on over 70,000 sites that allows users to set up post sharing to various social networks. Vulnerable versions of the plugin make it...

Wordfence Premium Price Increase Coming in December – The First Since 2016

It has been over 6 years since we last raised our prices. Since then our team has more than doubled in size and we have introduced significant improvements to the core Wordfence product, launched a range of free and paid products, and introduced new services that include 24 hour incident response...

Wordfence Intelligence Launches New Malware Hash Feed!

Today, the Wordfence team is launching a Malware Hash Feed as part of our Wordfence Intelligence API. This gives our Enterprise users another way to rapidly and definitively identify malware targeting web applications. As the world’s foremost WordPress security provider, Wordfence has an expertly...

Two Weeks of Monitoring ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41040 & CVE-2022-41082) Threat Activity

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring exploit attempts targeting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server tracked as CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082, collectively known as ProxyNotShell. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild. At the...

WordPress Elementor 3.6.2 Shell Upload

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Wordpress Plugin Elementor Authenticated Upload Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q The WordPress plugin Elementor versions 3.6.0 - 3.6.2,...

WordPress Wordfence Security - Firewall & Malware Scan Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site scripting...

WordPress Wordfence Plugin < 7.6.1 XSS Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...