WordPress vulnerabilitiesAnd the versions its exploited flaws hit.
WordPress is made by WordPress. We track 578 published vulnerabilities listed under that exact name, across 722 versions. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, the newest added on 7 July 2025. WordPress lists newer releases under their own names, such as Wordpress Mu, so check those pages too.
The most recent WordPress flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2016-10033, on 7 July 2025. We keep watching the known-exploited list.
Is WordPress listed under other names? Yes.
WordPress also lists WordPress under more specific names, such as Wordpress Mu. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. If you run one of these, open its page for its own exploited flaws.
Which versions of WordPress do the exploited flaws hit?
Each exploited flaw lists the versions it affects, as published by the vendor. Find your version, then patch.
- CVE-2016-10033Exploited list, 7 Jul 2025
PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability
up to 4.7
Which WordPress vulnerabilities are being exploited?
1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.
- 9.8PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability
PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input.
Which WordPress flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- >99%
The mailSend function in the isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.18 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code via a \" (backslash double...
- 98%CVE-2016-10045Critical
The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the...
- 98%CVE-2022-21661High
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database.
- 92%CVE-2019-8943Medium
WordPress through 5.0.3 allows Path Traversal in wp_crop_image().
- 87%CVE-2017-5487Medium
wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-users-controller.php in the REST API implementation in WordPress 4.7 before 4.7.1 does not properly restrict listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to...
- 86%CVE-2021-29447Medium
Wordpress is an open source CMS. A user with the ability to upload files (like an Author) can exploit an XML parsing issue in the Media Library leading to XXE attacks.
- 85%CVE-2009-2335Medium
WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 exhibit different behavior for a failed login attempt depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames.
- 83%CVE-2014-9034Medium
wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is...
- 83%CVE-2019-8942High
WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote code execution because an _wp_attached_file Post Meta entry can be changed to an arbitrary string, such as one ending with a .jpg?file.php substring.
- 82%CVE-2017-1001000High
The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in the REST API in WordPress 4.7.x before 4.7.2 does not require an integer identifier, which allows remote attackers...
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1 flaw being exploited affects software Acme tracks
PHPMailer contains a command injection vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input. Specifically, this issue affects the 'mail()' function of 'class.phpmailer.php' script. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.
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We track 578 published vulnerabilities listed under the name WordPress, across 722 versions. The most recent WordPress flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2016-10033, on 7 July 2025.
1 is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2016-10033.
WordPress also lists WordPress under more specific names, such as Wordpress Mu. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. Open the release you run to see its own list.
Each flaw names its own versions, usually as ranges. The newest, CVE-2016-10033, affects up to 4.7. The versions for every exploited flaw are listed on this page.
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