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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 31, 2026 to September 6, 2026)

Wordfence's weekly WordPress vulnerability report summarizes plugin and theme vulnerabilities disclosed and added to its database during the week ending September 6, 2026.

Wordfence published its weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report covering disclosures between August 31 and September 6, 2026. The report lists new vulnerabilities added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database and highlights contributors to WordPress Security. Administrators are advised to review the listed plugin and theme vulnerabilities to check whether their sites are affected.

Wordfence · 6d agoAdvisory

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 2026)

Wordfence's weekly report summarizes newly disclosed WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities added to its intelligence database for August 24-30, 2026.

Wordfence published its weekly WordPress vulnerability report covering disclosures added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database between August 24 and August 30, 2026. The report directs site owners to review the aggregated vulnerabilities to determine whether their sites are affected. The published text provides no specific CVE identifiers or affected products.

Wordfence · 13d agoAdvisory

Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

Five critical flaws (CVSS 9.8–10.0) in WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP enable WordPress admin takeover and RCE.

Wordfence and Patchstack disclosed five critical flaws in WordPress plugins and themes: WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP. The issues include unauthenticated authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76581), arbitrary file write leading to RCE (CVE-2026-18431), administrator account takeover via password-reset URL exposure (CVE-2026-19632), privilege escalation (CVE-2026-19598), and PHP object injection to RCE (CVE-2026-82222, CVSS 10.0). Patchstack says the GiveWP flaw chains an unsafe unserialize helper, attacker-controlled donation data, and a gadget chain in shipped code.

One slug, seven editions: the miniOrange SAML SSO bug that let anyone log in as your WordPress admin

DigitalOcean researchers reported a critical authentication flaw in miniOrange SAML SSO WordPress plugins, allowing login as WordPress admin across seven editions.

The DigitalOcean security team identified a critical flaw in miniOrange's SAML SSO WordPress plugins that allowed an attacker to authenticate as a WordPress administrator. Patchstack notes the issue spans seven editions of the plugin, all sharing a common slug. The write-up covers root cause analysis by DigitalOcean and vendor follow-up coordinated jointly with Patchstack; no specific CVE id is cited in the text.

Patchstack · 26d agoVulnerability

When a PNG Isn’t a PNG: WordPress Patches an Author-Level Imagick RCE

WordPress 7.0.4 patches an author-level RCE in how uploaded media is handed to ImageMagick.

WordPress maintenance release 7.0.4 includes a security fix that changes how uploaded media is passed to ImageMagick, closing a path that let a logged-in author turn a crafted image upload into remote code execution. Patchstack's analysis explains the flaw as a file-type handling issue where a PNG may not be treated as a PNG. The text does not mention a CVE ID or observed exploitation, but the flaw affects extremely widely deployed software.

Patchstack · Aug 12, 2026Vulnerability