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

Last week, there were 259 vulnerabilities disclosed in 199 WordPress Plugins and 5 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 142 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is not affected.

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New Firewall Rules Deployed Last Week

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team reviews each vulnerability to determine impact and severity, along with assessing the likelihood of exploitation, to verify that the Wordfence Firewall provides sufficient protection.

The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:

• Pods <= 3.3.9 – Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Authorization Bypass to Admin Methods via ‘pods_admin’ AJAX Router
• Wishlist Member X <= 3.34.1 – Unauthenticated Account Takeover via ‘mergewith’ Parameter
• WAF-RULE-946 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.
• WAF-RULE-947 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.
• WAF-RULE-950 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.

Wordfence Premium, Care, and Response customers received this protection immediately, while users still running the free version of Wordfence will receive this enhanced protection after a 30 day delay.

Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name	Number of Vulnerabilities
Wordfence PRISM	29
Asim Alshaya	10
daroo	9
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala	6
Jakub Herman	5
Pedro Pinho	5
luc	5
Farid Narimanov	5
Taylsec	5
Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh	5
VanTastic	4
Ananda Dhakal	4
Erwan LR	4
Dmitrii Ignatyev	4
Sai Praneeth Koti	3
Nir Yehoshua	3
Steven Julian	3
Dthangws	3
Phat RiO	3
testoun	2
Raihan Adi Arba	2
Jamaal ahmed	2
hhhai	2
Meher Sudhakar Abbireddi	2
Artus KG	2
Sanjorn Keeratirungsan	2
MatilJ	2
Usama Arshad	2
Nabil Irawan	2
CHOIGYEONGMIN	2
Nguyen Ba Khanh - HPT Vietnam Corporation	2
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara	2
skyv3il	2
0xd4rk5id3	2
Shivamani Vastrala	2
Sajjad Haqi	2
Afan	2
moonge	2
Supakiad S. (m3ez)	2
K. Sorrachat	2
Legion Hunter	2
Abdullah Kareem "cyberkareem"	2
Rafie Muhammad	2
Nguyen Dinh Hai (HaiND)	2
V1T	2
밥김국	1
Muhan Luo	1
Jonathan Dersch	1
a1batr0ss	1
d.v4n_s3c	1
Anthony Green of Greenhat Security	1
Vincent Sevkli	1
Denny Abraham Sinaga (dennyabrahamsinaga)	1
Ryoma Nishioka	1
João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth)	1
.$n	1
*Sico.eX	1
R4mbb	1
Dave Jong	1
Vaibhav Narkhede	1
Enis	1
Zainul Anwar Adi Putra	1
stealthcopter	1
Kishan Vyas	1
Nhien Pham (nhienit) (nhienit)	1
thevietronin	1
se1en	1
Dm_TomHe	1
pwn.ai Team	1
nudien	1
wandoo	1
Nikola Kojic	1
Septio Noerdiansyah	1
Spy0x7	1
Chamseddine Bouzaiene	1
Manopakorn Kooharueangrong (manop55555)	1
dangnosuy	1
Evan NR	1
Denver Jackson	1
Jayant Kamble	1
Michael Iden (Mickhat)	1
Krzysztof Zając	1
dutafi	1
Ivaylo Atanassov	1
Jorgson	1
theviper17y	1
Adrien Brunner	1
Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat)	1
Zamaan Ahmed (Zamaan)	1
Mohamed Bassia	1
JIWOONG LEE (kimchunbok)	1
Shikhali Jamalzade (alisalive)	1
momopon1415	1
nthng	1
hivesec	1
Guillermo Álvarez Fernández	1
Luk6785	1
Muhammad Yudha - DJ	1
etomixer	1
bashu	1
dodoh4t	1
Kevin	1
TarPeg007	1
Farrukh Ziyaev	1
Navapon Premkasem (71C4) (71C4)	1
Mokksh Parekh	1
Dahmani Toumi (pega_SUS)	1
Minhyeok Lee	1
zickzick2	1
kai63001	1
rajukani100	1
Abduvoris Karimov	1
VDsec	1
Revanth Hari Narayana Matte	1
SEONGWON CHO	1
Revanth Meesala	1
Vasily Belolapotkov, Vlad Olaru	1
vnth4nhnt	1
buitu	1
adhikara13	1
Jashid Sany	1
Naoya Takahashi (nakko)	1
Lee chul woong	1
Akshat Parikh	1
Mrs Skelli	1
Lucas Montes (NiRoX)	1
j4ck13ch4n	1
Arif Shaikh	1
sequence_X0	1
Ziming Zhang	1
Civitasmass	1
pajarori	1
takuma	1
Brandon Steed	1
mak3bread	1
Enrico Marcolini	1
Claudio Marchesini (Dottormarc)	1
Coopernicus	1
Alexander Jurkschat	1
0xsabre	1
Datist Pham	1
Ivaylo	1

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week

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