Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Super Forms Plugin

On July 9th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Super Forms, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 13,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including PHP...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 2026)

Last week, there were 246 vulnerabilities disclosed in 174 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 121 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Elementor Pro Plugin

On August 19th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Elementor Pro, a WordPress plugin with more than 6,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including...

Wordfence Argus Finds Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Gravity Forms

On August 9th, 2026, Wordfence Argus, created by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, discovered an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Gravity Forms, a WordPress plugin estimated to have more than one million active installations. This high-severity vulnerability makes it possible for...

5 Million WordPress Sites Affected by SQL Injection Vulnerability in All-in-One WP Migration and Backup WordPress Plugin

On August 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Second-Order SQL Injection vulnerability in All-in-One WP Migration and Backup, a WordPress plugin with more than 5 million active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject SQL...

Wordfence Argus: Moving Beyond Human Research Capability

When you create an AI agent that makes a breakthrough that is so difficult to understand that you need to ask it to write a blog post to explain it to you, you know you're on to something. If you're paying attention, you should have noticed that the major vulnerability we recently reported in one...

Wordfence Argus Finds Critical Authentication Bypass in WPMU DEV Dashboard Plugin

On August 19th, 2026, during internal research, I discovered an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in WPMU DEV Dashboard, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 350,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator access when Hub...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 17, 2026 to August 23, 2026)

Last week, there were 263 vulnerabilities disclosed in 206 WordPress Plugins and 17 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 116 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabiliti...

Wordfence Argus Finds Complex 6 Step Critical RCE in Avada Theme with 1 Million Sales

A year ago we wrote that we'd put AI to work across the whole company, turning everyone on the team into a capable AI operator so our defenders could stay ahead of the threat actors attacking the sites we protect. In April we showed where it was heading: in the space of a few months, AI-assisted...

400,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Account Takeover Vulnerability in TranslatePress WordPress Plugin

On August 11th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Account Takeover vulnerability in TranslatePress, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain an administrator's password reset...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 10, 2026 to August 16, 2026)

Last week, there were 265 vulnerabilities disclosed in 202 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 144 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Pods WordPress Plugin

On August 10th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Pods, a WordPress plugin with more than 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator and perform various...

Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin

On July 24th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Elementor Pro, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 6,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including...

600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Forminator Forms WordPress Plugin

On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including...

40,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin

On July 14th, 2026, we received a submission for an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in User Profile Builder, a WordPress plugin with more than 40,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as the user with ID 1, which is typically th...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026)

Last week, there were 294 vulnerabilities disclosed in 233 WordPress Plugins and 14 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 149 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabiliti...

PSA: Supply Chain Compromise in BdThemes Ecosystem via Poisoned API Response

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team was notified on August 7th, 2026 of a supply chain compromise affecting BdThemes, a WordPress plugin vendor whose plugins are available in the official WordPress plugins directory. Currently, all the affected plugins are temporarily closed pending a full...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 27, 2026 to August 2, 2026)

Last week, there were 300 vulnerabilities disclosed in 235 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 150 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – April 2026

In April 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1288 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 Wordfence Threat...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 20, 2026 to July 26, 2026)

Last week, there were 264 vulnerabilities disclosed in 210 WordPress Plugins and 6 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 117 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

WP2Shell WordPress Exploit Technical Analysis and Real Attack Data

On July 17th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing a critical vulnerability chain that can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to create an administrator account and then execute code through normal administrator capabilities, such as uploading a...

Wordfence PRISM Detected Backdoored WordPress Plugin within Two Hours of it Being Introduced

On July 28th, 2026, our autonomous AI vulnerability intelligence agent, Wordfence PRISM, identified a critical Authentication Bypass backdoor in Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, a WordPress plugin with approximately 20,000 active installations, less than two hours after the malicious code was...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 13, 2026 to July 19, 2026)

Last week, there were 91 vulnerabilities disclosed in WordPress Core, 80 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 62 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those...

A New Threat Landscape Meets A New Kind of Defender

Three years ago we launched a bug bounty program to accelerate WordPress security research, and it has been incredibly successful and has since secured the WordPress community against 9,727 vulnerabilities reported through our program. We have thus far awarded a total of $981,251 to researchers...

wp2shell Aftermath: The First Critical Unauthenticated WordPress Core RCE in Nearly a Decade

On Friday, July 17, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released security updates for WordPress Core addressing two vulnerabilities that, when chained together, can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The chain, now commonly referred to as wp2shell , was discovered and reported by Adam...

PSA: WordPress Core Patched Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Chain

On July 17, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing two security vulnerabilities. The first is an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-60137, while the second can be chained with the SQL injection to increase its impact to...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 6, 2026 to July 12, 2026)

Last week, there were 311 vulnerabilities disclosed in 254 WordPress Plugins and 8 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 167 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 29, 2026 to July 5, 2026)

Last week, there were 289 vulnerabilities disclosed in 205 WordPress Plugins and 41 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 130 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabiliti...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 22, 2026 to June 28, 2026)

Last week, there were 243 vulnerabilities disclosed in 195 WordPress Plugins and 9 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 131 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 15, 2026 to June 21, 2026)

Last week, there were 168 vulnerabilities disclosed in 146 WordPress Plugins and 4 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 96 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 8, 2026 to June 14, 2026)

Last week, there were 102 vulnerabilities disclosed in 90 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 68 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities ...

Critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability Patched in Avada Builder WordPress Plugin

On May 13th, 2026, we received a submission for a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in Avada Builder, a premium WordPress plugin with an estimated 1,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Sensitive Information Exposure Vulnerability in Gravity SMTP Plugin

On March 30th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability in Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 100,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to retrieve detailed system configuration data and,...

PSA: Supply Chain Compromise Targets ShapedPlugin, Backdoored Pro Plugins Distributed via Official Channels

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team was notified on June 11th, 2026 of a potential supply chain compromise affecting ShapedPlugin, a WordPress plugin vendor with over 400,000 active free plugin installations. Fortunately, Wordfence customers have already had malware signature detection for the...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 1, 2026 to June 7, 2026)

Last week, there were 160 vulnerabilities disclosed in 143 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 97 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities...

Critical Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Patched in UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugin

On June 2nd, 2026, we received a submission for a critical Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with more than 3 million active installations. Although the plugin has such a large install base, the vulnerability is only exploitable on sites that...

Quarterly WordPress Threat Intelligence Report – Q1 2026

As the leader in WordPress security, Wordfence provides unparalleled security coverage that fully encompasses protection, active monitoring, detection, and response all built around our threat intelligence, demonstrating a strong commitment to security. Our mission is to ensure comprehensive...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 25, 2026 to May 31, 2026)

Last week, there were 277 vulnerabilities disclosed in 184 WordPress Plugins and 70 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 93 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Everest Forms Pro Plugin

On March 30th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 4,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server, leading to...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Burst Statistics Plugin

On May 13th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Burst Statistics, a WordPress plugin with 200,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers, with knowledge of an administrator username, to impersonate that...

Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in Kirki WordPress Plugin

On May 4th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Kirki WordPress plugin. Although the plugin has more than 500,000 active installations, we estimate that only around 150,000 sites are using a vulnerable version, as the issue was introduce...

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – March 2026

In March 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1718 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 Wordfence Threat...

15,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Administrator Account Creation Vulnerability in WP Maps Pro WordPress Plugin

On March 24th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Administrator Account Creation vulnerability in WP Maps Pro, a WordPress plugin with more than 15,000 sales. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrator accounts on the affected...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 18, 2026 to May 24, 2026)

Last week, there were 101 vulnerabilities disclosed in 88 WordPress Plugins and 1 WordPress Theme that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 69 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities i...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 11, 2026 to May 17, 2026)

Last week, there were 78 vulnerabilities disclosed in 62 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 59 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities i...

How a Webmail Log File Became a Root-Level Backdoor

THREAT ANALYSIS May 2026 · Forensic Case Study A forensic breakdown of how an attacker turned CyberPanel's SnappyMail logging into a persistent webshell that survived every WordPress cleanup attempt. A WordPress site owner reported redirect malware on their site. They found that clicking anywhere...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 4, 2026 to May 10, 2026)

Last week, there were 78 vulnerabilities disclosed in 62 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 59 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities i...

200,000 WordPress Sites at Risk from Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Burst Statistics Plugin

On May 8, 2026, PRISM, Wordfence Threat Intelligence’s autonomous vulnerability research platform, discovered a critical Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Burst Statistics, a WordPress plugin with more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability was introduced in the code on April 2...

1,000,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Read and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Avada Builder WordPress Plugin

On March 21st, 2026, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Read and an SQL Injection vulnerability in Avada Builder, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 1,000,000 active installations. The arbitrary file read vulnerability can be used by authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 27, 2026 to May 3, 2026)

Last week, there were 87 vulnerabilities disclosed in 198 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 61 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities ...