August 2020 Monthly Vulnerability Roundup

WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WordPress Theme Vulnerabilities

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July 2020 Monthly Vulnerability Roundup

WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

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WPScan User Documentation

This is a copy of the WPScan User Documentation. Please refer to the Github Wiki version for the most up to date information.

Introduction

WPScan is a free, for non-commercial use, black box WordPress security scanner written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their sites.

WPScan is written in the Ruby programming language. The first version of WPScan was released on the 16th of June 2011.

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WordPress Security Scan

WordPress is undisputedly the most popular Content Management System (CMS) in use today. With the most commonly quoted figure being the one published by w3techs, putting WordPress at 37.7% of all websites today (July 2020) and growing. It is no surprise then that WordPress is also the most targeted CMS by hackers.

Despite what some believe, WordPress is a secure CMS, depending on what your definition of “secure” is.

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WordPress 5.4.2 Security and Maintenance Release

Yesterday, June 10th, WordPress released version 5.4.2, which was a security and maintenance release.

Version 5.4.2 of WordPress fixes 6 separate security issues. Three of which addressed authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. One addressing an potential Open Redirect vulnerability. One privilege escalation vulnerability, and one issue where password protected posts and pages comments could be exposed in certain circumstances.

As well as the 5.4.2 minor version release, WordPress also released security fix for WordPress versions as far back as WordPress version 3.7, which was released in 2013. This is the full list of minor versions that WordPress released to fix the six security issues:

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May 2020 Monthly Vulnerability Roundup

WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

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April 2020 Monthly Vulnerability Roundup

WordPress Core Vulnerabilities

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CVSS Risk Scores and More

Since we launched our WordPress vulnerability database in 2014, we have been lacking one important factor, vulnerability risk scores. This was partly due to not being able to decide on which risk scoring system to use, not having the time to implement the system, and not having the time to assign risk scores to new vulnerabilities, if the system was implemented.

Today we’re happy to announce that all new WordPress vulnerability database vulnerabilities will come with a CVSS risk score. However, these will be limited to the API and to Enterprise users for now.

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New WPScan Features

For the past few weeks we have been busy working on new features and improvements to our WordPress Vulnerability Database, which went live today.

Even though the whole world is going through difficult times right now, we are still here adding vulnerabilities to our databases and improving our services.

So, what do we have for you!

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