Wordfence Argus Finds Complex 6 Step Critical RCE in Avada Theme with 1 Million Sales
Brief
A year ago we wrote that we’d put AI to work across the whole company , turning everyone on the team into a capable AI operator so our defenders could stay ahead of the threat actors attacking the sites we protect.
In April we showed where it was heading : in the space of a few months, AI-assisted reports to our bug bounty program had gone from 16% to about two-thirds of everything we received, and it wasn’t slowing down.
As we continue to see AI driven innovation in cybersecurity, the Wordfence team continues to accelerate our own pace of AI enabled innovation. PRISM, our autonomous research agent, is now the most prolific researcher we have , with over 300 vulnerabilities to its name and the top spot on our leaderboard over the last 30 days.
In July it caught a supply-chain backdoor in a 20,000-install plugin less than two hours after the malicious code went in .