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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026)
Wordfence published its weekly vulnerability report for September 28 through October 4, 2026, disclosing 501 vulnerabilities across 367 WordPress plugins and 9 themes. Most vulnerabilities were patched (449), with cross-site scripting as the most common issue type (206 cases). Critical vulnerabilities included unauthenticated remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws affecting plugins like AcyMailing, Kirki, and SiteSkite.
Why it matters: WordPress site owners running vulnerable plugins must prioritize patching: 20 critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerabilities pose immediate takeover risk, and 174 high-severity flaws enable privilege escalation or file access. Practitioners should audit installed plugins against this list and apply patches immediately, especially for unpatched flaws like CVE-2026-32579 (Kognetiks Chatbot arbitrary file upload) and CVE-2026-75873 (Zella arbitrary file upload).
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