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Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Jun 9, 2026Helpfulcrowd Product Reviews: Authorization BypassCVE-2026-8499 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 5.3
The Helpfulcrowd Product Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via PHP Type Juggling in versions up to, and including, 1.2.9. This is due to the `helpfulcrowd_validate_token()` function using a loose comparison operator (`!=`) instead of a strict comparison (`!==`) when validating the `token` parameter, while the corresponding REST route `/wp-json/helpfulcrowd/v1/update-settings` is registered with a `permission_callback` of `__return_true`, making it reachable by unauthenticated users; submitting a JSON boolean `true` as the `token` value causes PHP's loose comparison to evaluate as equal to the non-empty base64-encoded secret string, bypassing the check entirely. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke `helpfulcrowd_settings_endpoint()` and write arbitrary attacker-controlled key-value pairs directly into the `helpfulcrowd_options` WordPress database option via `update_option()` without any sanitization or allowlist filtering, enabling full unauthenticated modification of the plugin's stored configuration.
- Product
- Helpfulcrowd Product Reviews
- Affected
- up to 1.2.9
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.2.9. Update Helpfulcrowd Product Reviews to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Jul 24, 2025WP Wallcreeper: Unauthorized modification of dataCVE-2025-7822 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
The WP Wallcreeper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the admin_notices hook in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enable and disable caching.
- Product
- WP Wallcreeper
- Affected
- up to 1.6.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.6.1. Update WP Wallcreeper to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgwordfence.com
May 3, 2024PB MailCrypt: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVE-2024-33935 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Pascal Bajorat PB MailCrypt allows Stored XSS.This issue affects PB MailCrypt: from n/a through 3.1.0.
- Product
- PB MailCrypt
- Affected
- up to 3.1.0
- What to do
- Affects up to 3.1.0. Update PB MailCrypt to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordpatchstack.compatchstack.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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