Did you know we're running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through February 29th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! In 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team's primary focus was to research high-impact, high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities. This means that we spent a lot of time looking for vulnerabilities like arbitrary file uploads, user password resets, authentication bypasses, and privilege escalations. Fortunately, we were able to discover a lot of these vulnerabilities and get them remediated before attackers could find and exploit them. Now that we have launched our Bug Bounty Program that pays the biggest bounties for the most impactful research, we hope to continue a positive trend of researchers finding critical, high impact vulnerabilities and responsibly disclosing those through our program so we can work with vendors to ensure they get patched. In today’s post, we’d like to highlight some of the big vulnerabilities of 2023 that we focused on, along with providing some background on these vulnerability types. 2023 Wordfence Critical Vulnerability Research in Review Authentication Bypass An authentication bypass vulnerability occurs when an attacker exploits weaknesses in the authentication mechanism to log into a user’s account, typically a high-privileged user. These vulnerabilities make it easy for threat actors to completely…Read More