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 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...

National Cyber Security Awareness Month: You Could Be the Biggest Threat to Your WordPress Site

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S., and this year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber.” What is really being said by this theme is that we all have a role to play in cyber security, whether we work in the industry or not. With this in mind, the Cybersecurity and...

1.6 Million WordPress Sites Hit With 13.7 Million Attacks In 36 Hours From 16,000 IPs

Today, on December 9, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that make it possible for attackers to update arbitrary options on vulnerable sites. This led us into an investigation which uncovered an active attack targeting over a million...

100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Remote Code Execution via PHP Object Injection Vulnerability Found by Wordfence Argus in Tutor LMS

On August 23rd, 2026, Wordfence Argus, our AI research agent specializing in complex vulnerability chains, discovered a PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Tutor LMS, a WordPress e-learning plugin active on more than 100,000 websites. This vulnerability allows any authenticated attacker with...

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...

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

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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...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026)

Last week, there were 358 vulnerabilities disclosed in 243 WordPress Plugins and 4 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 184 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilitie...

Inside a Malicious, Stealthy WordPress Must Use Plugin

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team identified an interesting malware sample in mid June during a site clean. The malware was installed as a must-use plugin with several self-healing mechanisms in place in order to survive removal. It also makes use of Etherhiding, a technique that hides the...

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – June 2026

In June 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1066 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...