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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.

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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 9, 2025 to June 15, 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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WPML SEO 2.2.0 – Smarter Multilingual SEO Features and Improvements

We just released WPML SEO 2.2.0 with new improvements that make managing multilingual SEO easier and more efficient – whether you’re using Yoast SEO or Rank Math SEO. New Features and Improvements Meta Title and Description Length Control When using automatic translation, WPML now makes sure that translated meta titles and descriptions stay within the …

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100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation via MCP in AI Engine WordPress Plugin

On May 21st, 2025, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for an Insufficient Authorization to Privilege Escalation via MCP (Model Context Protocol) vulnerability in the AI Engine plugin, which is actively installed on more than 100,000 WordPress websites. This vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to get full access to the MCP and execute various commands like ‘wp_update_user’, allowing them to escalate their privileges to administrators by updating their user role. Please note that this vulnerability only critically affects users who have enabled the Dev Tools and then the MCP module in the settings, which is disabled by default.

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Introducing Find And Replace For Divi 5

Today, we are excited to release Find and Replace for Divi 5, an impressive efficiency tool for Divi power users that will speed up your workflow and play an essential role in helping old websites adopt Divi 5’s new design systems, such as variables. Right-click on any field to find and replace its value within …

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New Pest Control 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 Meetup 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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Everything You Need To Know About Extend Attributes In Divi 5

Divi 5‘s newest feature, Extend Attributes, is here, and it helps you make significant changes to your page design with just a few clicks. Let’s explore what it is, how it works, and why it’s a must-have for Divi 5 users. Whether building a personal blog or managing a complex client website, this feature promises …

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Hot Deals Ahead – Summer Sale Starts Now!

Get ready to turn up the heat with our Themify Summer Sale! For a limited time only, enjoy a 30% discount all our regular memberships or $50 off Lifetime Club. Whether you’re launching a new project or giving your website a seasonal refresh, now is the perfect time to save big and build better with Themify. 30% …

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Mastering The Golden Ratio In Design

Your design looks almost right, but something feels off. The spacing seems awkward. The proportions don’t work. You adjust margins and padding, but that nagging sense of imbalance remains. The missing piece might be the golden ratio. This mathematical principle has guided great design for centuries. And, our eyes naturally prefer these specific ratios. Most …

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What Is clamp() In CSS (And How To Use It)

If you’ve ever tried making your site look good on both phones and giant monitors, you’ve seen how spacing breaks, fonts shrink drastically or scale excessively, and elements either overwhelm or disappear.  To fix all that, you end up writing a long list of media queries for one layout. That’s where clamp() can help. It’s …

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A New Divi For Professionals And Serious Web Design

Divi built its reputation as a friendly and innovative page builder that is affordable and accessible to millions. But like all lasting software, it faced the inevitable challenge of technical debt. Other companies started fresh, unencumbered by years of legacy code, without committing to backward compatibility. They launched new builders that took full advantage of …