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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 23, 2025 to June 29, 2025)

📢 Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! 📢 🌞 Spring into Summer with Wordfence! Now through August 4, 2025, earn 2X bounty rewards for all in-scope submissions from our ‘High Threat’ list in software with fewer than 5 million active installs. Bounties up to $31,200 per vulnerability. Submit bold. Earn big! Last week, …Read More

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bbPress 2.6.14 is out!

bbPress 2.6.14 is a minor release that fixes 20 issues. For everyone running bbPress 2.6, feel free to update at your earliest convenience. 🍯 This release improves Akismet, BuddyPress, and PHP 8.2 support, moderation terms, search, and more! (All of these fixes have already been merged into trunk/2.7.) Thank you to everyone who contributed to …

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New Landscaping Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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New Life Coach Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in Forminator WordPress Plugin

On June 20th, 2025, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in Forminator, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated threat actors to specify arbitrary file paths in a form submission, and the file will be deleted when the submission is deleted. It can be leveraged to delete critical files like wp-config.php, which can lead to remote code execution.

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Everything You Need To Know About Divi 5’s Find And Replace

Divi 5 recently introduced a new feature that makes site revisions faster and more efficient. Find And Replace is designed to streamline your website design process, making it faster and more efficient to make sweeping changes across your site. Whether new to Divi or a seasoned pro, this feature can quickly become essential to your …

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Testing Divi Essential With Divi 5

Divi 5 has been in Public Alpha since late last year. It is incredible how much progress we’ve made over that time. However, to gauge its progress, you need to look at how leading third-party extensions are adapting to Divi 5’s new architecture. We did a full overview of Divi Essentials not too long ago, …

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Testing Accessibility Sidebar With Divi 5

Some people need larger text, higher contrast, or motion turned off to use a website comfortably. Accessibility Sidebar gives your visitors those options, all built to work seamlessly with Divi 5. Let’s explore what it does, how it works, and why it matters before the June 28 deadline. The Accessibility Sidebar For Divi 5 Your …

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New Dental Skin – Modern Design for Dental Clinics

We’re excited to announce the launch of our latest Dental skin – a fresh addition to our growing collection of professionally designed skins built with Ultra or Builder Pro. Unlike typical dental website templates, our new Dental skin features a clean, contemporary design enhanced with fluid, smooth animations that add a modern touch without compromising …

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WordCamp US 2025: See You in Portland, Oregon!

WordCamp US 2025 is heading to vibrant Portland, Oregon, from August 26–29, 2025! Join fellow open source enthusiasts, developers, designers, and WordPress professionals from across the United States and around the world for four days of learning, networking, and collaboration at the Oregon Convention Center. Nestled in the Pacific Northwest, Portland is famous for its …

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Testing Accessibility Attributes With Divi 5

Accessibility Attributes is now fully compatible with Divi 5, giving you a no-code way to add ARIA roles, labels, and other screen reader helpers right inside the builder. If you’re working with Divi 5, it’s the easiest way to build accessibility into your site without changing your workflow or design. With the European Accessibility Act …

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Interactions For Divi 5 (Pop-Ups, Toggles, Mouse Effects & More)

Today, we are excited to release Interactions for Divi 5, 🎉 a robust system for creating interactive elements such as popups and toggles, and creative scroll-based and mouse-movement-based effects. It’s not a pop-up builder; it’s an anything builder. Create a trigger, assign an effect, choose a target, and bring your custom interactions to life. You …

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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 16, 2025 to June 22, 2025)

📢 Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! 📢 🌞 Spring into Summer with Wordfence! Now through August 4, 2025, earn 2X bounty rewards for all in-scope submissions from our ‘High Threat’ list in software with fewer than 5 million active installs. Bounties up to $31,200 per vulnerability. Submit bold. Earn big! Last week, …Read More

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Introducing Improved Backward Compatibility For Divi 5

We’re getting very close to the launch of the Divi 5 Public Beta, and our team is focused on giving all Divi 4 users a clear upgrade path with a solid level of backward compatibility with legacy modules that may not be ready for Divi 5 when it launches. We’ve been testing all the top-selling …

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WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0 – Smoother, Faster, and Easier to Use

We just released WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0! This major version brings better usability, improved performance, and a few new feature requests. Highlights of WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0 Smarter Multi-currency Handling We addressed a number of edge cases related to multi-currency filtering, sorting, and price calculations. As a result, you’ll notice: Improved Product Review Translation Displaying translated product …

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New Catering Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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New Nursery Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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Neve WordPress Theme Review: 1,200+ Five-Star Ratings Can’t Be Wrong…or Can They?

Neve has long been considered one of the top ten WordPress themes in the official WordPress repository. It consistently gets high ratings and is active on hundreds of thousands of websites. It’s obvious that many people like it, but does that mean it’s a good choice for you? In this review we peel back the curtain and give you all the information you need to make that decision.

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6 New Image Galleries Built With Divi 5’s Nested Rows (Free Download)

If you’ve ever tried building an image gallery manually, you know how quickly things get messy. Uneven images, misaligned rows, and unresponsive designs turn a simple gallery into a layout nightmare. Even in Divi 4, complex image structures often meant stacking multiple rows and specialty sections, tweaking spacing, and hours of manual customization. But with …

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A Deep Dive into a Modular Malware Family

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team recently identified an interesting malware family on May 16, 2025 during a site clean. This malware family shared a codebase but varied in features across different versions, including credit card skimming and WordPress credential theft. Most surprisingly, one variant incorporated a live backend system hosted directly on infected websites for attacker use – a previously unseen method – packaged and disguised as a rogue WordPress plugin.

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The Things You Hate About Divi 4 And How We’re Fixing Them In Divi 5

Divi has become a leading WordPress theme and page builder, powering nearly 1 million websites with its versatile design options and intuitive Visual Builder. Its rise in popularity stems from its ease of use and ability to create stunning, professional websites without extensive coding. However, we know Divi 4 isn’t perfect. Through user feedback from …

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Understanding Divi 5’s Five Phase Release Schedule

Divi 5 is nearing stage four, a Public Beta in Divi 5’s unique release schedule. Since this incredible milestone is soon upon us, we wanted to take the time to inform you about: The Unique 5 Phase Release Schedule Everything that’s already been done What comes next, and What role can Divi 5 play in …

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10 Grid Layouts Made With Divi 5’s Nested Rows (Free Download)

Grid layouts offer a structured yet flexible way to organize content, enhance the user experience, and ensure seamless responsiveness across devices. With the release of Divi 5 Public Alpha, web designers have a new toolset to create beautiful grid layouts that push creative boundaries. With a completely redesigned Visual Builder and powerful new features like …

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Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6

As of July 2025, the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. These versions were first released nine or more years ago and over 99% of WordPress installations run a more recent version. The chances this will affect your site, or sites, is very small. If you …

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Introducing Relative Colors & HSL For Divi 5

Today, we are excited to release Relative Colors for Divi 5, positioning Divi as the clear leader in color management and advanced color systems. 🎉 Divi’s color picker has been completely redesigned, and it doesn’t get any better. Using HSL, you can create mathematically beautiful, variable-based color systems that are easy to manage, revolutionizing how …

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Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Motors Theme

On May 2nd, 2025, we received a submission for a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Motors, a WordPress theme with more than 22,000 sales. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to change the password of any user, including an administrator, which allows them to take over the account and the website. We originally disclosed this vulnerability on May 19th, 2025 and our records indicate that attackers started exploiting the issue the next day on May 20th, 2025. It appears mass exploitation started on June 7th, 2025. The Wordfence Firewall has already blocked over 23,100 exploit attempts targeting this vulnerability.