Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 19, 2023 to June 25, 2023)
Last week, there were 84 vulnerabilities disclosed in 76 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 42 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:
- tagDiv Cloud Library <2.7 – Missing Authorization to Arbitrary User Metadata Update
- WAF-RULE-610 – Information redacted while we work with developer to ensure this vulnerability gets patched.
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 |
Unpatched | 20 |
Patched | 64 |
Total Vulnerabilities by CVSS Severity Last Week
Severity Rating | Number of Vulnerabilities |
Low Severity | 0 |
Medium Severity | 69 |
High Severity | 9 |
Critical Severity | 6 |
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’) | 35 |
Missing Authorization | 14 |
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 11 |
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) | 9 |
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key | 5 |
Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) | 1 |
Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes (‘Prototype Pollution’) | 1 |
Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File | 1 |
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’) | 1 |
Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) | 1 |
Incorrect Privilege Assignment | 1 |
Information Exposure | 1 |
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity | 1 |
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel | 1 |
External Control of File Name or Path | 1 |
Researchers That Contributed to WordPress Security Last Week
Researcher Name | Number of Vulnerabilities |
Rafie Muhammad | 15 |
Marco Wotschka (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher) | 7 |
Rafshanzani Suhada | 4 |
Truoc Phan | 4 |
Abdi Pranata | 3 |
Le Ngoc Anh | 3 |
LEE SE HYOUNG | 3 |
Lana Codes (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher) | 3 |
Miguel Santareno | 2 |
Alex Thomas (Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher) | 2 |
Erwan LR | 2 |
Mateus Machado Tesser | 2 |
Rio Darmawan | 2 |
Christiaan Swiers | 1 |
drwtsn | 1 |
Fioravante Souza | 1 |
An Đặng | 1 |
Nguyen Xuan Chien | 1 |
Chien Vuong | 1 |
Webbernaut | 1 |
Rio Darmanwan | 1 |
Jonas Höbenreich | 1 |
Skalucy | 1 |
Lucio Sá | 1 |
Mika | 1 |
Fariq Fadillah Gusti Insani | 1 |
Dipak Panchal | 1 |
yuyudhn | 1 |
qerogram | 1 |
Jihoon Lee | 1 |
daniloalbuqrque | 1 |
Taurus Omar | 1 |
qilin_99 | 1 |
BOT | 1 |
Robert Lockwood | 1 |
Shunsuke Aoki | 1 |
Bae Song Hyun | 1 |
FearZzZz | 1 |
Bob Matyas | 1 |
Theodoros Malachias | 1 |
Shreya Pohekar | 1 |
Felipe Restrepo Rodriguez | 1 |
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WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week
Software Name | Software Slug |
AN_GradeBook | an-gradebook |
About Me 3000 widget | about-me-3000 |
All In One Redirection | all-in-one-redirection |
BBS e-Popup | bbs-e-popup |
Booking Calendar Contact Form | booking-calendar-contact-form |
Booking Calendar | Appointment Booking | BookIt | bookit |
Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin | buymeacoffee |
CMS Commander – Manage Multiple Sites | cms-commander-client |
Colibri Page Builder | colibri-page-builder |
Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML | companion-sitemap-generator |
Complianz Premium – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent | complianz-gdpr-premium |
Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent | complianz-gdpr |
Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress | wpforms-lite |
Contact Form to DB by BestWebSoft – Messages Database Plugin For WordPress | contact-form-to-db |
Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster | core-web-vitals-pagespeed-booster |
Customer Service Software & Support Ticket System | wp-ticket |
Display Custom Fields – wpView | wpview |
Elementor Website Builder Pro | elementor-pro |
Enable SVG Uploads | enable-svg-uploads |
Enable SVG, WebP & ICO Upload | enable-svg-webp-ico-upload |
EventON | eventon-lite |
Export All URLs | export-all-urls |
Extra User Details | extra-user-details |
Five Star Restaurant Reservations – WordPress Booking Plugin | restaurant-reservations |
Float menu – awesome floating side menu | float-menu |
Form Builder | Create Responsive Contact Forms | contact-form-add |
Gallery Metabox | gallery-metabox |
Gravity Forms | gravityforms |
Greeklish-permalink | greeklish-permalink |
Gutenverse – Gutenberg Blocks – Page Builder for Site Editor | gutenverse |
HTTP Headers | http-headers |
Image Protector | image-protector |
InventoryPress | inventorypress |
JS Help Desk – Best Help Desk & Support Plugin | js-support-ticket |
Lana Shortcodes | lana-shortcodes |
Lana Text to Image | lana-text-to-image |
MStore API | mstore-api |
Mail Queue | mail-queue |
Mailtree Log Mail | mailtree-log-mail |
MainWP Child – Securely Connects Sites to the MainWP WordPress Manager Dashboard | mainwp-child |
Membership Plugin – Restrict Content | restrict-content |
Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder – Flexible and Design-Friendly Contact Form builder plugin for WordPress | metform |
MojoPlug Slide Panel | mojoplug-slide-panel |
MyCurator Content Curation | mycurator |
Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress | ninja-forms |
OOPSpam Anti-Spam | oopspam-anti-spam |
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress | wp-user-avatar |
Popup by Supsystic | popup-by-supsystic |
PostX – Gutenberg Post Grid Blocks | ultimate-post |
Potent Donations for WooCommerce | donations-for-woocommerce |
PrePost SEO | prepost-seo |
Product Vendors | woocommerce-product-vendors |
Quick Post Duplicator | rduplicator |
ReDi Restaurant Reservation | redi-restaurant-reservation |
Sermon’e – Sermons Online | sermone-online-sermons-management |
Simple Iframe | simple-iframe |
Smoothscroller | smoothscroller |
Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer | super-socializer |
Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk | cleantalk-spam-protect |
Unlimited Elements For Elementor (Free Widgets, Addons, Templates) | unlimited-elements-for-elementor |
WP Cookie Notice for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy Consent | gdpr-cookie-consent |
WP Mail Logging | wp-mail-logging |
WP Sticky Social | wp-sticky-social |
WP-Members Membership Plugin | wp-members |
WPBakery Page Builder for WordPress | js_composer |
WPForms Pro | wpforms |
WooCommerce Brands | woocommerce-brands |
WooCommerce Bulk Stock Management | woocommerce-bulk-stock-management |
WooCommerce PayPal Payments | woocommerce-paypal-payments |
WooCommerce Payments – Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo | woocommerce-payments |
WooCommerce Square | woocommerce-square |
WooCommerce Subscription | woocommerce-subscriptions |
WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons | maxbuttons |
google-analytics-premium | google-analytics-premium |
tagDiv Cloud Library | td-cloud-library |
teachPress | teachpress |
WordPress Themes with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week
Software Name | Software Slug |
Balkon | balkon |
Newspaper – News & WooCommerce WordPress Theme | newspaper |
Vulnerability Details
Please note that if you run the Wordfence plugin on your WordPress site, with the scanner enabled, you should’ve already been notified if your site was affected by any of these vulnerabilities.
tagDiv Cloud Library <2.7 – Missing Authorization to Arbitrary User Metadata Update
Affected Software/s: Newspaper – News & WooCommerce WordPress Theme, tagDiv Cloud Library
CVE ID: CVE-2023-1597
CVSS Score: 9.8 (Critical)
Researcher/s: Truoc Phan
Patch Status: Patched
Vulnerability Details: https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24e8d1a4-9853-4f60-a371-7fdbe86d554b
MStore API
Source: wordfence.com