Comparison Overview
Elance

Elance
441 Logue Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043, US
Last Update: 05/11/2025
Elance is now Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing website. Visit us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/upwork

Freelancer.com
Level 37, Grosvenor Place, 225 George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Sydney, 2000, AU
Last Update: 14/09/2026
Thirteen-time Webby award-winning Freelancer is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted. More than 85 million registered users have posted over 25 million projects and contests to date in over 4,000 area...
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Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals
Incidents vs Technology, Information and Internet Industry Avg (This Year)
No incidents recorded for Elance in 2026.
Incidents vs Technology, Information and Internet Industry Avg (This Year)
No incidents recorded for Freelancer.com in 2026.
Incident History - Elance (X = Date, Y = Severity)
Elance cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Incident History - Freelancer.com (X = Date, Y = Severity)
Freelancer.com cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries.
Notable Incidents

Elance

Freelancer.com
FAQ
Latest Global CVEs
Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CentralAuth extension allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Mediawiki - CentralAuth extension: before 1.46.1, 1.45.5, 1.43.10.
Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki - WikiLambda extension allows Stored XSS. This issue affects MediaWiki - WikiLambda extension: before 1.46.1.
Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Refreshed skin allows Stored XSS. This issue affects Mediawiki - Refreshed skin: before 1.46.1, 1.45.5, 1.43.10.
XML injection (aka blind XPath injection) vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - EasyTimeline extension allows XML Injection. This issue affects Mediawiki - EasyTimeline extension: before 1.46.1, 1.45.5, 1.43.10.
anchorme through 3.0.8 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the IPv6 host extraction regex due to catastrophic backtracking. Attackers can supply specially crafted input strings with repeated patterns to cause exponential regex engine backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop and denying service to other requests.
- https://gist.github.com/mmadersbacher/46050b4224eb979431986cdef1dd2ad3
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js
- https://github.com/alexcorvi/anchorme.js/blob/f3ae9850baa344f27b46bb149e9b891831d273b1/src/index.ts#L109
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/anchorme
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anchorme-through-3.0.8-regular-expression-denial-of-service