Did you know Wordfence runs a Bug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? __Researchers can earn up to $10,400, for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability, submit the details directly to us, and we handle all the rest. For a limited time, all high risk issues are in-scope for all researchers! WordPress Core 6.5.5 was released yesterday, on June 24, 2023. Contained within this release are three security fixes addressing two Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and one Windows-specific Directory Traversal vulnerability. Despite these vulnerabilities being medium-severity, the worst of them (specifically, the XSS vulnerabilities) can allow for site takeover by an authenticated, contributor-level user if successfully exploited. The Directory Traversal vulnerability has been backported to every version of WordPress since 4.1, with the XSS vulnerabilities being backported to the major version in which the functionality was released. WordPress has supported automatic core updates for security releases since WordPress 3.7, and the vast majority of WordPress sites should receive a patch for their major version of WordPress automatically over the next 24 hours. We recommend verifying that your site has been automatically updated to one of the patched versions. Patched versions are available for every major version of WordPress since 4.1, so you can update without risking compatibility issues. The…Read More