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MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall <= 6.69 — Unauthenticated Denial of Service

CVE-2026-84776Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤6.69Update to 6.72 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:N Integrity
None
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall malcare-security

  1. Affected≤ 6.69
  2. Patched in6.72

Update to 6.72 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 6.69. Version 6.72 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 6.72, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ananda Dhakal.

The MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 6.69. This is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make the affected site unavailable.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall

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More vulnerabilities in MalCare WordPress Security Plugin – Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Site Takeover via Brute Force
<6.65Update to 6.65
CVE-2026-19718

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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