Wordfence Argus Discovers Critical Vulnerability in libheif, the Library That Opens iPhone Photos on Your Server

On September 1, 2026, the libheif project released version 1.23.3, closing a critical heap buffer overflow that the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, using Wordfence Argus, discovered and reported four days earlier. The libheif maintainer, Dirk Farin, gave it a score of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVS...