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1 Feb 2018

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in January 2018

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 January (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 reviews 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 were a couple of vulnerabilities of types highly likely to be exploited in a plugin that was removed from the Plugin Directory 5 years ago but is still installed on 500+ websites according to wordpress.org.

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.

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 serious vulnerability here being an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in LearnDash LMS that was discovered after it was already being exploited.

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