Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 22, 2024 to January 28, 2024)
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Last week, there were 52 vulnerabilities disclosed in 42 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 26 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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Total Unpatched & Patched Vulnerabilities Last Week
Patch Status | Number of Vulnerabilities |
Unpatched | 15 |
Patched | 37 |
Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week
Severity Rating | Number of Vulnerabilities |
Low Severity | 0 |
Medium Severity | 46 |
High Severity | 5 |
Critical Severity | 1 |
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’) | 25 |
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 8 |
Missing Authorization | 5 |
Improper Access Control | 5 |
Deserialization of Untrusted Data | 2 |
Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) | 2 |
Use of Insufficiently Random Values | 1 |
Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) | 1 |
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) | 1 |
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’) | 1 |
Inappropriate Source Code Style or Formatting | 1 |
Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week
Researcher Name | Number of Vulnerabilities |
Bob Matyas | 8 |
Webbernaut | 6 |
Francesco Carlucci | 6 |
Krzysztof Zając | 5 |
Daniel Ruf | 4 |
Sh | 2 |
Majed Refaea | 2 |
Yuki Haruma | 1 |
Tobias Weißhaar (kun_19) | 1 |
Le Ngoc Anh | 1 |
Byeongjun Jo | 1 |
Pedro Cuco (Illex) | 1 |
Bence Szalai | 1 |
arpeetrathi | 1 |
stealthcopter | 1 |
Sam Pizzey (mopman) | 1 |
Colin Xu | 1 |
Ahmed Algohary | 1 |
Akbar Kustirama | 1 |
kodaichodai | 1 |
Dipak Panchal (th3.d1p4k) | 1 |
Nex Team | 1 |
drop | 1 |
Ma Long | 1 |
SudoBash | 1 |
Richard Telleng (stueotue) | 1 |
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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week
Software Name | Software Slug |
(Simply) Guest Author Name | guest-author-name |
10Web AI Assistant – AI content writing assistant | ai-assistant-by-10web |
AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages | accelerated-mobile-pages |
Add SVG Support for Media Uploader | inventivo | add-svg-support-for-media-uploader-inventivo |
Advanced Database Cleaner | advanced-database-cleaner |
Advanced Schedule Posts | advanced-schedule-posts |
Allow SVG | allow-svg |
Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone | backuply |
Better Follow Button for Jetpack | better-follow-button-for-jetpack |
Better Search Replace | better-search-replace |
Category Discount Woocommerce | woo-product-category-discount |
Content Views – Post Grid, Slider, Accordion (Gutenberg Blocks and Shortcode) | content-views-query-and-display-post-page |
Elementor Addons by Livemesh | addons-for-elementor |
Exclusive Addons for Elementor | exclusive-addons-for-elementor |
File Manager | wp-file-manager |
File Manager Pro | wp-file-manager-pro |
Form Maker by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder | form-maker |
Formidable Forms – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder | formidable |
InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration | instawp-connect |
Mang Board WP | mangboard |
Marketing Twitter Bot | wordpress-twitterbot |
Meks Smart Social Widget | meks-smart-social-widget |
PDF Generator For Fluent Forms – The Contact Form Plugin | fluentforms-pdf |
PDF Poster – PDF Embedder Plugin for WordPress | pdf-poster |
Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions | paid-memberships-pro |
SVG Uploads Support | svg-uploads-support |
Sticky Buttons – floating buttons builder | sticky-buttons |
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool | ultimate-noindex-nofollow-tool |
Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend | views-for-wpforms-lite |
WP Customer Area | customer-area |
WP Dashboard Notes | wp-dashboard-notes |
WP Go Maps (formerly WP Google Maps) | wp-google-maps |
WP RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging | wp-rss-aggregator |
WP-Reply Notify | wp-reply-notify |
WPFront Notification Bar | wpfront-notification-bar |
WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub) | pubsubhubbub |
WolfNet IDX for WordPress | wolfnet-idx-for-wordpress |
WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons | maxbuttons |
WordPress Simple Shopping Cart | wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart |
aBitGone CommentSafe | abitgone-commentsafe |
coreActivity: Activity Logging plugin for WordPress | coreactivity |
illi Link Party! | link-party |
Vulnerability Details
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