Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – October 2025

Last month in October 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 486 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by the Wordfenc...

PT-2025-47787

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions S2B AI Assistant – ChatBot, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Content & Image Generator plugin for WordPress versions through 1.7.8 Description The software is susceptible to arbitrary file uploads because of a lack of file type validation within the storeFile...

GenAI: Harness the Power, Eliminate the Risk — A Practical Playbook for Securing AI from Day One

Enterprises everywhere are racing to leverage AI to gain sharper insights, automate workflows, and deliver richer customer experiences. Based on an assessment conducted by Bain & Company, generative AI adoption is soaring, with 95% of US companies using it, up 12 percentage points in just a year...

It’s not personal, it’s just business

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. This week, we explore how advances in agentic AI are rapidly transforming the cyber crime business. Agentic AI programming gives AI agents autonomy, allowing them to interact with external systems to collect information, make decisio...

What is CTEM? Your Guide to Reducing Cyber Risk

Trying to explain security priorities to your board using CVSS scores is a tough sell. A long list of technical flaws doesn't translate to business impact, making it difficult to justify budgets and get buy-in for critical initiatives. Security leaders need a better way to frame the conversation...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (November 10, 2025 to November 16, 2025)

Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! The LFInder Challenge:Refine your LFI hunting skills with an expanded scope. Now through November 24, 2025, all LFI vulnerabilities in software with at least 25 active installs are considered in-scope for all researchers, regardless of...

[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power “smart features”

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail's smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot o...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: 0-Days, LinkedIn Spies, Crypto Crimes, IoT Flaws and New Malware Waves

This week has been crazy in the world of hacking and online security. From Thailand to London to the US, we've seen arrests, spies at work, and big power moves online. Hackers are getting caught. Spies are getting better at their jobs. Even simple things like browser add-ons and smart home gadget...

IBM Concert 跨站脚本漏洞

IBM Concert is a generative artificial intelligence-driven automated application management and monitoring tool based on the watsonx platform released in May 2024 by IBM. IBM Concert suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that stems from the application's lack of effective filtering an...

SafePay Ransomware: TTPs and Defense Strategies

When a threat actor disables your security software and starts deleting your backups, you’re already in the middle of a crisis. The operators behind SafePay ransomware are known for these exact tactics, deliberately sabotaging your ability to respond and recover. Catching an attack like this earl...

A CMO’s Perspective: Why This Moment Matters in the AI Era

Akamai’s CMO describes how the company is radically rethinking and extending the systems needed to unlock AI's true potential...

CISA Releases Guide to Mitigate Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers

Today, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, in collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, released the guide Bulletproof Defense: Mitigating Risks from...

What is Patch Management Automation and Why It Matters

Executive Summary Environments rarely stay as orderly as they begin. New workloads, faster releases, and growing attack surfaces stretch manual patching beyond its limits. The real risk emerges in the widening gap between spotting a vulnerability and fixing it. Automated patch management closes...

Hiding in the AI Traffic: Abusing MCP for LLM-Powered Agentic Red Teaming

Generative AI is reshaping offensive cybersecurity by enabling autonomous red team agents that can plan, execute, and adapt during penetration tests. However, existing approaches face trade-offs between generality and specialization, and practical deployments reveal challenges such as...

Securing AI Agents against Prompt Injection Attacks

Retrieval-augmented generation RAG systems have become widely used for enhancing large language model capabilities, but they introduce significant security vulnerabilities through prompt injection attacks. We present a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating prompt injection risks in RAG-enabled A...

​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​

Over the past year, I've had countless conversations with customers who are striving to unlock human ambition with AI. They are on their journey to become Frontier Firms, where humans and agents push the boundaries of innovation and create new possibilities, empowering humans to become limitless...

​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​

Over the past year, I've had countless conversations with customers who are striving to unlock human ambition with AI. They are on their journey to become Frontier Firms, where humans and agents push the boundaries of innovation and create new possibilities, empowering humans to become limitless...

Beyond IAM Silos: Why the Identity Security Fabric is Essential for Securing AI and Non-Human Identities

Identity security fabric ISF is a unified architectural framework that brings together disparate identity capabilities. Through ISF, identity governance and administration IGA, access management AM, privileged access management PAM, and identity threat detection and response ITDR are all integrat...

What We Do In The Shadow (AI): New Malware Strain Vamps Up

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WordPress AI Engine plugin <= 3.1.8 - Authenticated (Editor+) Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability

Authenticated Editor+ Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability discovered by Jonas Benjamin Friedli in WordPress Plugin AI Engine versions = 3.1.8...