WordPress Incidents

When the WordPress ecosystem breaks, businesses end up paying the price.

Every day a plugin breaks, an update upends functionality, and real-world impact hits businesses that rely on WordPress. Here are stories that show the cost of depending on themes, plugins, and hosting add-ons for core infrastructure.

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Vulnerabilities in 2025

11,241

2026 (so far)

10,532

October (so far)

1,688

2026 vulnerabilities by software type

Plugin vulnerabilities

9,397

Theme vulnerabilities

1,099

Core vulnerabilities

36

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Recent Critical & High Severity Vulnerabilities

WordPress vulnerabilities with CVSS 7 or higher among Patchstack's 20 newest listings.

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Sources:

Patchstack Vulnerability Database.

Feed checked Oct 23, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC (just now).

Latest high-severity disclosure: Oct 23, 2026.

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