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1 Dec 2017

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in November 2017

If you want the best information and therefore best protection against vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we provide you that through our service.

Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during November (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet):

Plugin Security Reviews

Paid customers of the service can suggest and vote on plugins to have a security review done by us. This month we released details for a review of:

Plugin Vulnerabilities We Discovered and Publicly Disclosed This Month

We don’t just collect data on vulnerabilities in plugins that others have discovered, we also discover vulnerabilities through proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins, monitoring hackers’ activity, reviewing other vulnerabilities, and by doing additional checking on the security of plugins.

The most concerning vulnerabilities this month were a pair of arbitrary file upload vulnerability, one  in the first version of a plugin, which points to the need for changes to the security reviews that are supposed to be done before plugins can enter the Plugin Directory, and other in a plugin that has been removed from the Plugin Directory for an undisclosed reason.

Plugin Vulnerabilities We Helped Get Fixed This Month

Letting you know that you are using a vulnerable version of plugin is useful, but it is much more useful if you can fully protect yourself by simple updating to a new version. So we work with plugin developers to make sure that vulnerabilities get fixed. This month we helped to get vulnerabilities fixed in plugins that have 1,054,600+ active installs:

Plugin Vulnerabilities Added This Month That Are In The Current Version of the Plugins

Keeping your plugins up to date isn’t enough to keep you secure as these vulnerabilities in the current versions of plugins show:

Additional Vulnerabilities Added This Month

As usual, there were plenty of other vulnerabilities that we added to our data during the month. The most concerning of the bunch was an authenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate as there exploitation attempts against it before it was fixed (some of them also used the shortcode execution vulnerability in Formidable Forms, though that may have only started being exploited after it was fixed).

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