Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website.
Each vulnerability will have a severity rating of Low, Medium, High, or Critical. Responsible disclosure and reporting of vulnerabilities is an integral part of keeping the WordPress community safe.
As one of the largest WordPress Vulnerability Reports to date, please share this post with your friends to help get the word out and make WordPress safer for everyone.
WordPress Core Vulnerabilities
1. Clean Login
Plugin: Clean Login
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 1.12.6.4
Severity Score: Medium
2. SliceWP
Plugin: SliceWP
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 1.0.46
Severity Score: High
3. WordPress Download Manager
Plugin: WordPress Download Manager
Vulnerability: Email Template Setting Update via CSRF
Patched in Version: 3.2.13
Severity Score: Medium
4. SpeakOut! Email Petitions
Plugin: SpeakOut! Email Petitions
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 2.13.3
Severity Score: High
5. Site Reviews
Plugin: Site Reviews
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 5.13.1
Severity Score: Low
6. Tutor LMS
Plugin: Tutor LMS
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 1.9.6
Severity Score: High
7. WPFront Notification Bar
Plugin: WPFront Notification Bar
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 2.1.08087
Severity Score: Low
8. Form Builder
Plugin: Form Builder
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 1.9.8.5
Severity Score: High
Plugin: Form Builder
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 1.9.8.4
Severity Score: Low
9. WPvivid Backup
Plugin: WPvivid Backup
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 0.9.56
Severity Score: High
10. AddToAny
Plugin: AddToAny
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 1.7.46
Severity Score: Low
11. Stop Spammers Security
Plugin: Stop Spammers Security
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 2021.18
Severity Score: Low
12. Keywords & Meta
Plugin: Keywords & Meta
Vulnerability: CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
13. Titan Framework
Plugin: Titan Framework
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
Affects Plugins:
- 4k-icon-fonts-for-visual-composer – No known fix – plugin closed
- adblock-notify-by-bweb – No known fix
- affiliate-pro – No known fix – plugin closed
- amp-extensions – No known fix
- aoi-tori – No known fix
- awesome-support – No known fix
- betteroptin – No known fix – plugin closed
- border-loading-bar – No known fix
- catchers-helpdesk – No known fix
- categories-gallery – No known fix
- categories-gallery-woocommerce – No known fix
- cf7-customizer – No known fix
- clinicalwp-core – No known fix
- cool-facebook-page-feed-timeline – No known fix – plugin closed
- custom-scroll-bar-designer – No known fix
- custom-text-selection-colors – No known fix
- disable-image-right-click – No known fix
- easy-gallery-slideshow – No known fix
- easy-google-map – No known fix
- easy-justified-gallery – No known fix
- email-my-posts – No known fix
- exit-popup-show – No known fix
- flight-search-widget-blocks – No known fix
- icons-with-links-widget – No known fix – plugin closed
- icustomizer – No known fix
- live-chat-facebook-fanpage – No known fix
- media-mirror – No known fix
- mobile-menu – No known fix
- popup-modal-for-youtube – No known fix
- project-app – No known fix
- seatgeek-affiliate-tickets – No known fix
- seo-dashboard-by-gutewebsites-de – No known fix
- share-woocommerce-email – No known fix
- simple-behace-portfolio – No known fix
- stars-menu – No known fix – plugin closed
- station-pro – No known fix
- sticky-related-posts – No known fix – plugin closed
- tcs3 – No known fix
- template-events-calendar – No known fix
- total-sales-for-woocommerce – No known fix
- tr-easy-google-analytics – No known fix – plugin closed
- venture-event-manager – No known fix
- w3s-cf7-zoho – No known fix
- webhotelier – No known fix
- woo-availability-date – No known fix
- woo-whatsapp-request-quote – No known fix – plugin closed
- woosaleskit-bar – No known fix – plugin closed
- yandex-money-button – No known fix
14. WP Fusion Lite
Plugin: WP Fusion Lite
Vulnerability: CSRF to Data Deletion
Patched in Version: 3.37.30
Severity Score: Medium
Plugin: WP Fusion Lite
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 3.37.30
Severity Score: High
Plugin: WP Fusion Lite
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 3.37.31
Severity Score: High
15. Block and Stop Bad Bots
Plugin: Block and Stop Bad Bots
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injections
Patched in Version: 6.60
Severity Score: Medium
16. WP Simple Booking Calendar
Plugin: WP Simple Booking Calendar
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injections
Patched in Version: 2.0.6
Severity Score: Medium
17. Paid Member Subscriptions
Plugin: Paid Member Subscriptions
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injections
Patched in Version: 2.4.2
Severity Score: Medium
18. Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator
Plugin: Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 1.3.22
Severity Score: High
19. Alipay
Plugin: Alipay
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
20. Cashtomer
Plugin: Cashtomer
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
21. WordPress Membership SwiftCloud.io
Plugin: WordPress Membership SwiftCloud.io
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
22. WordPress Membership SwiftCloud.io
Plugin: Comment Highlighter
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
23. Easy Testimonial Manager
Plugin: Easy Testimonial Manager
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
24. Embed Youtube Video
Plugin: Embed Youtube Video
Vulnerability: Authenticated SQL Injection
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Medium
25. Quiz And Survey Master
Plugin: Quiz And Survey Master
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 7.1.14
Severity Score: High
26. Book appointment Online
Plugin: Book appointment Online
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 1.39
Severity Score: Low
27. miniOrange’s Google Authenticator
Plugin: miniOrange’s Google Authenticator
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 5.4.40
Severity Score: High
28. Two Factor Authentication
Plugin: Two Factor Authentication
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 1.0.8
Severity Score: High
29. Daily Prayer Time
Plugin: Daily Prayer Time
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 2021.08.10
Severity Score: Low
30. Custom Post View Generator
Plugin: Custom Post View Generator
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
31. FV Flowplayer Video Player
Plugin: FV Flowplayer Video Player
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 7.5.3.727
Severity Score: High
32. Picture Gallery
Plugin: Picture Gallery
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Low
33. Software License Manager
Plugin: Software License Manager
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: 4.4.8 (Plugin Closed)
Severity Score: High
34. Per Page Add to Head
Plugin: Per Page Add to Head
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored XSS
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Low
Plugin: Per Page Add to Head
Vulnerability: CSRF to Stored XSS
Patched in Version: 1.4.4 (Plugin Closed)
Severity Score: High
35. Securimage-WP-Fixed
Plugin: Securimage-WP-Fixed
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
36. Image Export
Plugin: Image Export
Vulnerability: Directory Traversal
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: Critical
37. Content text slider on post
Plugin: Content text slider on post
Vulnerability: Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Patched in Version: 6.9
Severity Score: Medium
38. Contact Form Generator
Plugin: Contact Form Generator
Vulnerability: Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
39. Calendar_plugin
Plugin: Calendar_plugin
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
40. Add Sidebar
Plugin: Add Sidebar
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
41. WP SEO Tags
Plugin: WP SEO Tags
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
42. Moova for WooCommerce
Plugin: Moova for WooCommerce
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
43. jQuery Tagline Rotator
Plugin: jQuery Tagline Rotator
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
44. Plugmatter Pricing Table Lite
Plugin: Plugmatter Pricing Table Lite
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
45. Simple Popup Newsletter
Plugin: Simple Popup Newsletter
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
46. TypoFR
Plugin: TypoFR
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
47. WP Songbook
Plugin: WP Songbook
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
48. Custom Post Type Relations
Plugin: Custom Post Type Relations
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
49. 2Way VideoCalls and Random Chat
Plugin: 2Way VideoCalls and Random Chat
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
50. WP Fountain
Plugin: WP Fountain
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
51. Media Usage
Plugin: Media Usage
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
52. Scribble Maps
Plugin: Scribble Maps
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
53. Multiplayer Games
Plugin: Multiplayer Games
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
54. Skaut bazar
Plugin: Skaut bazar
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
55. Smart Email Alerts
Plugin: Smart Email Alerts
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
56. Simple Behance Portfolio
Plugin: Simple Behance Portfolio
Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Patched in Version: No known fix
Severity Score: High
WordPress Theme Vulnerabilities
A Note on Responsible Disclosure
You might be wondering why a vulnerability would be disclosed if it gives hackers an exploit to attack. Well, it is very common for a security researcher to find and privately report the vulnerability to the software developer.
With responsible disclosure, the researcher’s initial report is made privately to the developers of the company that owns the software, but with an agreement that the full details will be published once a patch has been made available. For significant security vulnerabilities, there may be a slight delay in disclosing the vulnerability to give more people time to patch.
The security researcher may provide a deadline for the software developer to respond to the report or to provide a patch. If this deadline is not met, then the researcher may publicly disclose the vulnerability to put pressure on the developer to issue a patch.
Publicly disclosing a vulnerability and seemingly introducing a Zero-Day vulnerability–a type of vulnerability that has no patch and is being exploited in the wild– may seem counterproductive. But, it is the only leverage that a researcher has to pressure the developer to patch the vulnerability.
If a hacker were to discover the vulnerability, they could quietly use the Exploit and cause damage to the end-user(this is you), while the software developer remains content on leaving the vulnerability unpatched. Google’s Project Zero has similar guidelines when it comes to disclosing vulnerabilities. They publish the full details of the vulnerability after 90 days whether or not the vulnerability has been patched.
How to Protect Your WordPress Website From Vulnerable Plugins and Themes
As you can see from this report, lots of new WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities are disclosed each week. We know it can be difficult to stay on top of every reported vulnerability disclosure, so the iThemes Security Pro plugin makes it easy to make sure your site isn’t running a theme, plugin or WordPress core version with a known vulnerability.
1. Turn on the iThemes Security Pro Site Scanner
The iThemes Security Pro plugin’s Site Scanner scans for the #1 reason WordPress sites get hacked: outdated plugins and themes with known vulnerabilities. The Site Scanner checks your site for known vulnerabilities and automatically applies a patch if one is available.
To enable the Site Scan on new installs, navigate to the Site Check tab on the Features menu inside the plugin and click the toggle to enable the Site Scan.
To trigger a manual Site Scan, click the Scan Now button on the Site Scan Security Dashboard card.
If the Site Scan detects a vulnerability, click the vulnerability link to view the details page.
On the Site Scan vulnerability page, you will see if there is a fix available for the vulnerability. If there is a patch available, you can click the Update Plugin button to apply the fix on your website.
2. Turn on Version Management
The Version Management feature in iThemes Security Pro integrates with the Site Scan to protect your site when outdated software is not updated quickly enough. Even the strongest security measures will fail if you are running vulnerable software on your website. These settings help protect your site with options to update to new versions automatically if a known vulnerability exists and a patch is available.
From the Settings page in iThemes Security Pro, navigate to the Features screen. Click the Site Check tab. From here, use the toggle to enable Version Management. Using the settings gear, you can configure even more settings, including how you want iThemes Security Pro to handle updates to WordPress, plugins, themes, and additional protection.
Make sure to select Auto Update if it Fixes a Vulnerability box so that iThemes Security Pro will automatically update a plugin or theme if it fixes a vulnerability that was found by the Site Scanner.
3. Get an Email Alert When iThemes Security Pro Finds a Known Vulnerability On Your Site
Once you’ve enabled Site Scan Scheduling, head to the Notification Center settings of the plugin. On this screen, scroll to the Site Scan Results section.
Click the box to enable the notification email and then click the Save Settings button.
Now, during any scheduled site scans, you’ll get an email if iThemes Security Pro discovers any known vulnerabilities. The email will look something like this.
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Each week, Michael puts together the WordPress Vulnerability Report to help keep your sites safe. As Product Manager at iThemes, he helps us continue to improve the iThemes product lineup. He’s a giant nerd & loves learning about all things tech, old & new. You can find Michael hanging out with his wife & daughter, reading or listening to music when not working.
