Wordfence Weekly Report Flags 159 WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress security usually fails in small increments: one missed plugin update, one overlooked role change, one backup tool that has not been reviewed in months. Wordfence’s latest weekly report is a reminder that the update queue is a security control, not a housekeeping chore.

For the June 1–7 window, Wordfence says it added 159 vulnerabilities to its Intelligence database, covering 140 WordPress plugins and 2 themes. The report says 134 of those issues were already patched, while 25 remained unpatched. It also counted 9 critical vulnerabilities and 53 high-severity findings. Source

What stands out in this report

The issue that jumps out operationally is UpdraftPlus. Wordfence says it deployed firewall protection for UpdraftPlus after a vendor-fixed issue involving UpdraftCentral. Premium, Care, and Response customers were protected immediately; free users receive the same protection after the standard 30-day delay. Source

The bigger takeaway is simpler: a weekly vulnerability report is a reminder that WordPress security work is mostly operational discipline: inventory, triage, patching, and making sure the plugins you depend on are actually still maintained. Source

What site owners should do now

• Check whether you run UpdraftPlus and whether UpdraftCentral is in use.
• Review the plugins that handle authentication, uploads, forms, backup, or ecommerce first.
• Keep auto-updates on for safe components, but still review anything that touches roles, credentials, or remote access.
• Treat unpatched high- and critical-severity items as same-day work, not a “later this week” task.

Bottom line

The report is not a reason to panic. It is a reason to shorten the time between disclosure, inventory check, and patch. If a plugin sits in the path of logins, uploads, backups, or payments, your maintenance routine should assume it will eventually appear in one of these weekly reports. Source

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