Last week, there were 655 vulnerabilities disclosed in 406 WordPress Plugins and 100 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 236 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:

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

Patch Status Number of Vulnerabilities
Patched 366
Unpatched 289

Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week

Severity Rating Number of Vulnerabilities
Low Severity 8
Medium Severity 377
High Severity 249
Critical Severity 21

Total Vulnerabilities by CWE Type Last Week

Vulnerability Type by CWE Number of Vulnerabilities
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') 198
Missing Authorization 112
Deserialization of Untrusted Data 67
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') 61
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 45
Improper Privilege Management 30
Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') 24
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key 21
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 18
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') 15
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') 11
Improper Authentication 9
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) 8
Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security 7
Incorrect Authorization 6
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) 5
Missing Authentication for Critical Function 3
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 3
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel 2
Protection Mechanism Failure 2
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') 1
Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties 1
Improper Authorization 1
Improper Input Validation 1
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') 1
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data 1
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') 1
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information 1

Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week

Researcher Name Number of Vulnerabilities
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