Bassem Essam

Bassem Essam is a security researcher credited with 15 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #327 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2024 and 2025. The most productive year was 2024, with 10 findings.

Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Scripting, which accounts for 9 of their findings (60%). Other recurring categories include Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), SQL Injection. The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 7.0, peaking at 8.8. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 5 high.

The most affected software includes HUSKY (2), Better Messages (1), Fast Page & Post Duplicator (1), across 14 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.

14 of the 15 disclosed issues have a vendor fix, while 1 remain unpatched. The most severe finding, "InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration <= 0.1.0.83 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local File Inclusion", scores 8.8 out of 10.