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 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:

• WAF-RULE-940 – Data redacted while we work with the vendor on a patch.
• WordPress Core <= 7.0.2 – Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via log Parameter
• emer-run.php Malware Auth Bypass

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
daroo	18
Ananda Dhakal	16
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala	10
Revanth Hari Narayana Matte	9
Pedro Pinho	9
Bonds	8
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara	7
dutafi	7
Farid Narimanov	7
Jakub Herman	7
Sai Praneeth Koti	5
Mustafa Ahmed	5
João Ramos Maciel	5
Meher Sudhakar Abbireddi	5
Itthidej Aramsri (Boeing777)	4
Shivamani Vastrala	4
Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited)	4
Usama Arshad	4
testoun	4
Artus KG	4
Haitam Lazaar	3
Legion Hunter	3
TurboNexic	3
moonge	3
Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada)	3
Waris Damkham	2
Mohammad Aghdasi	2
Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan)	2
nthng	2
ApogeeBytes	2
João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth)	2
Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)	2
Evan NR	2
Aydan Arabadzha	2
Vaibhav Narkhede	2
Shikhali Jamalzade (alisalive)	2
Nguyen Ba Khanh - HPT Vietnam Corporation	2
Mukhlis Amien	2
momopon1415	2
JunHee CHO	2
Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh	2
hhhai	2
Sanjorn Keeratirungsan	2
zaim	2
Real_King_Engine	2
Teerachai Somprasong	1
Muhammad Yudha - DJ	1
lucsob	1
LevinityCyber	1
Muqsith Barru	1
Ezekiel Victor	1
Riski Gana Prasetya	1
lodos2005	1
j4ck13ch4n	1
kai63001	1
Kazuma Matsumoto	1
alex_henry20	1
pwn.ai Team	1
Daniel Dhaniswara	1
murd0ck	1
Patricio Briones (CyberDoomer)	1
Doan Dinh Van	1
Bob Matyas	1
Tarcísio Luchesi De Almeida Silva (Poystick)	1
haofanjiukunle	1
Uma Mo	1
Shikhali Jamalzade	1
Erwan LR	1
Stefan Spasic	1
V1T (V1tnamese)	1
Fraudless	1
Pablo González Pérez, Francisco José Ramírez Vicente, and Iñigo Sánchez Enciso	1
JING QIAN	1
Alireza	1
Asaf Mozes	1
Melina Lentini (M3l3n)	1
Suleyman Huseynov	1
okndjo	1
Alfath Marchdika Cahyatullah	1
Romain Deperne (ang3L)	1
winky	1
Miguel Mendez Z	1
Noman Riffat	1
Saleh Elsayed (0xManticore)	1
SATYARTH PRAKASH (XoxoL33t)	1
Austin Ginder	1
KEVIN LEE (crattack)	1
Lucius-log	1
Aikido Security	1
luc	1
Akshat Parikh	1
she11f	1
Nir Yehoshua	1
Eran Kapeluto	1
Nox Axter	1
Asim Alshaya	1
moochi	1
mappymappy	1
Drew Webber (mcdruid)	1
Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat)	1
yuyudhn	1
Ali Osman ERBAS (0110m4n)	1
johska	1
Michael Iden (Mickhat)	1
Anirudh Gupta	1
Pierre Rudloff	1
Chiao-Lin, Yu (Steven Meow)	1
at1as	1
Nhien Pham (nhienit) (nhienit)	1
Webbernaut	1
Karthik Ramakrishnan	1
Nguyễn Đức Hòa	1
AlexHenry	1
Hieus	1
Que Thanh Tuan	1
Yat	1
Régis SENET	1
Mohammed Abd Alrahman	1
Chamseddine Bouzaiene	1
Elio Gubser (odkdn1)	1
whitesector	1
Hyunsoo Jeong	1
t0ann9uy3n	1
scort	1
Ryoma Nishioka	1
Pham Duc Anh	1
0ways	1
Andrew MacPherson	1
nudien udin	1
nudien	1
Alessandro Greco	1
Giovambattista Ianni	1
timomangcut	1
zer0gh0st	1
whitebyte	1
Khaled Alenazi	1
Jakub Herman	1
Abaid Ur Rehman	1
d.v4n_s3c	1
dzeusking	1
Omar Elshopky	1
Nguyen Duc Canh (canhnguyen26)	1
Dmitrii Ignatyev	1
normaandersonfrank	1
Mitchell	1
Alexis Lafontaine	1
thevietronin	1
Jamaal ahmed	1
Nicolas Decayeux	1

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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week