One of WordPress’ strengths is the number of plugins that are available, but that also leads to additional security issues since you have a lot or reinventing the wheel, where a new plugin is created that does something already done with existing plugins. What we have found is that can lead to security issues that already were fixed in older plugins coming back again with new plugins.  In our monitoring of changes being made to plugins to try to provide fuller information on vulnerabilities than we could by just including data on vulnerabilities where there has been a report put out by the discoverer of the vulnerability, we ran across a similar, but more problematic situation, where a developer actually removed security code from their own plugin.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Slider Hero not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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