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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 21, 2026 to September 27, 2026)
Matched: WordPress
Wordfence reported 319 WordPress vulnerabilities across 222 plugins for the week of September 21–27, 2026. Of these, 305 were patched and 14 remain unpatched. Fourteen vulnerabilities were rated critical, including unauthenticated privilege escalation, remote code execution, and arbitrary file upload flaws. WordPress core itself received a patch for an unauthenticated local file inclusion bug. Cross-site scripting and missing authorization were the most common vulnerability types. 156 researchers contributed disclosures.
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026)
Matched: WordPress
Wordfence recorded 358 vulnerabilities across 243 WordPress plugins and 4 themes for the week of September 14–20, 2026. Of these, 311 were patched and 47 remain unpatched. Severity breakdown: 18 critical, 74 high, 262 medium, 4 low. Critical issues included backdoored software in Admin Menu Editor Pro, unauthenticated remote code execution in several plugins, authentication bypasses, and arbitrary file uploads. WordPress Core 7.1 received patches for stored XSS and several authorization flaws. 184 researchers contributed disclosures.
Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – May 2026
Matched: WordPress
Wordfence's May 2026 bug bounty report recorded 1,095 vulnerability submissions from 293 researchers, down 15% and 10.4% respectively from April. Of those, 149 were in-scope. Total bounties paid reached $34,454, with the highest single award of $6,436 going to a privilege escalation flaw in the Kirki plugin. Critical findings included authentication bypass in Burst Statistics, actively exploited file upload in Breeze Cache, and arbitrary file read in Avada Builder affecting one million sites.
100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Pods WordPress Plugin
Matched: WordPress
A critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the Pods WordPress plugin, active on over 100,000 sites. Reported August 10, 2026, the flaw lets attackers gain administrator access without credentials, enabling actions like overwriting any user's password, including the site owner's, leading to full site takeover.
40,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin
Matched: WordPress
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability was found in the User Profile Builder WordPress plugin, affecting over 40,000 sites. Reported July 14, 2026, the flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as the primary administrator (user ID 1), enabling full site takeover. The vulnerability is only exploitable when the plugin's "Automatically Log In" setting is enabled.