Wordfence Falsely Claims WordPress Plugin Contains a “Critical” Vulnerability Because It Confused it With Another Plugin
Recently, we have covered multiple instances where the WordPress security provider Wordfence was falsely claiming that WordPress plugins contain “critical” vulnerabilities, despite there being no vulnerability. That is despite them marketing one of their services, Wordfence Intelligence, partly based on providing high-quality data of that type:
Wordfence Intelligence includes a comprehensive and extremely current vulnerability database for WordPress that contains nearly 7,000 unique vulnerability records. This database is actively maintained by some of the top WordPress vulnerability researchers in the industry. [Read more]