In this blog post we are going to look at the vulnerabilities added to the WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database in July 2021. The vulnerabilities were all hand curated and added to our database by WordPress security experts. The vulnerabilities come from independent security researchers from the security community who submit them to us via our… More

By default, WordPress allows administrator and editor users to inject JavaScript into pages, posts, comments and widgets. This is because administrator and editor users have the unfiltered_html capability. Here at WPScan it is quite common to receive vulnerability reports via our submission form where the security researcher was not aware that administrator and editor users are… More

In March, the WPScan WordPress security research team discovered Cross‑Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection bypasses in 37 WordPress plugins, affecting over 200,000+ active WordPress websites. The vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed, resulting in the 37 plugins either being patched or removed from the official WordPress plugin repository. Cross‑Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a vulnerability that can allow an… More

On July 13th two critical SQL Injection vulnerabilities were reported and patched in the WooCommerce and WooCommerce Blocks WordPress plugins. SQL Injection vulnerabilities allow attackers to ‘piggyback’ on SQL queries, usually allowing the attacker to read, write and edit database data. Although SQL Injection vulnerabilities can sometimes be difficult to exploit manually, tools such as sqlmap… More

Over the past 10 years that WPScan have been cataloging WordPress vulnerabilities, we have had many hundreds of independent security researchers contribute to our WordPress vulnerability database. Today, we talk to m0ze, a long time WPScan vulnerability database contributor, who shares his thoughts on the state of WordPress security today. Please introduce yourself.My name is Vlad, also… More

Today, April 15th, 2021, WordPress released version 5.7.1, a security and maintenance release that reportedly patches two security vulnerabilities. The WordPress release announcement lists the following two security vulnerabilities as being patched in version 5.7.1: Thank you SonarSource for reporting an XXE vulnerability within the media library affecting PHP 8. Thanks Mikael Korpela for reporting a data exposure vulnerability within the… More

Zerodium, a company that buys security exploits to then resell to government entities, tripled its price for WordPress Remote Command Execution (RCE) exploits. In a tweet sent out on Friday, April 9th, Zerodium announced that they had temporarily tripled the price they pay out to security researchers for WordPress RCE exploits. Increasing the payout from… More

Over 14,000 covid test patients were affected by a data leak in Germany this week. This was due to the testing centre software using incremental identifiers in their custom WordPress REST API endpoint. More

A member of the WPScan research team discovered two security vulnerabilities within the premium WooCommerce Customers Manager WordPress plugin, versions less than 26.6. The following two vulnerabilities were identified and added to our WordPress vulnerability database: Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting – CVSS: 7.1 (High)Arbitrary User Account Creation/Update via CSRF – CVSS: 8.8 (High) More