WordPress Security Research

A genuine area of expertise

WordPress powers a large share of the web, and its plugin ecosystem is where most real-world risk lives. My specialization is the manual security auditing of WordPress plugins — reading the source, understanding the data flow, and identifying the exact points where authentication, authorization or input handling break down.

This is white-box research: I don’t stop at automated scanner output. I trace how untrusted input reaches sensitive operations, where capability checks are missing, and how an unauthenticated visitor can escalate to administrator or achieve code execution.

What I look for

• Broken access control — missing or incorrect capability checks.
• Privilege escalation — including unauthenticated escalation to administrator.
• Authentication & authorization flaws — nonce, session and permission logic.
• Remote code execution — unsafe file handling, deserialization and code paths.
• SQL injection, XSS and CSRF — classic classes that still cause real impact.

• PHP Object Injection
• SQL Injection
• Remote Code Execution
• Privilege Escalation
• Broken Access Control
• Cross-Site Scripting
• Cross-Site Request Forgery
• Sensitive Data Exposure

Representative findings

Each of these is documented in an authoritative Wordfence advisory:

Responsible disclosure

I work through coordinated disclosure — reporting findings to vendors and to programs such as the Patchstack Alliance, and allowing time for a patch before any public detail. The goal is to reduce real risk for site owners, not to publish for its own sake.

Explore the full body of CVE research or the vulnerability database profiles that credit it.