Protecting You Against Wordfence’s Bad Practices: Authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability in EWWW Image Optimizer
Wordfence is putting WordPress website at risk by disclosing vulnerabilities in plugins with critical details needed to double check their work missing, in what appears to be an attempt to profit off of these vulnerabilities. We are releasing those details so that others can review the vulnerabilities to try to limit the damage Wordfence’s practice could cause.
Wordfence describes the vulnerability in EWWW Image Optimizer version 2.8.3 as a “Remote Command Execution vulnerability which an attacker can exploit on multisite WordPress installations to gain complete control of a WordPress site”. [Read more]