Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan <= 7.6.0 — Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Am I affected?

• Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security.
• No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

1. Update to version 7.6.1, or a newer patched version
2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
3. Watch Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ori Gabriel.

The Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 7.6.0 via a setting on the options page due to insufficient escaping on the stored value. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with administrative privileges, to inject malicious web scripts into the setting that executes whenever a user accesses a page displaying the affected setting on sites running a vulnerable version.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

• Advisorywordfence.com

Related CVEs

Timeline

1. Sep 6, 2022

   CVE published

   Severity medium, CVSS 4.4

2. Nov 13, 2026

   Record last updated