Vulnerabilities · 53 days ago

Wordfence sees mass WordPress shell drops

Wordfence says attackers have now launched more than 440,000 exploit attempts against Super Forms and Elementor Pro, turning two WordPress plugin flaws into a mass abuse campaign. The Super Forms issue is CVE-2026-14894, fixed in 6.3.314, and the Elementor Pro issue is CVE-2026-32475, fixed in 4.2.2.

Both bugs let an unauthenticated attacker upload a PHP file as if it were ordinary form content. Once that file lands where the site can serve it, it runs like code, so the next step is often a web shell that can create admin accounts, steal data, and seize the site.

For WordPress sites that expose public file-upload forms, the exposure is no longer a one-off disclosure on a single plugin. Any unpatched instance with the vulnerable form path still reachable is sitting in a live bot-driven takeover window, and cleanup gets harder once a shell has already been planted.

CVE-2026-32475

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CVSS 9 CRITICAL: unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Elementor Elementor Pro allows Using Malicious… EPSS 2% (80th percentile).

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Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-09-07

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