Yesterday the plugin WP GDPR Compliance was closed on the Plugin Directory, the reason given by the developer is that was done by the “WordPress Plugin Review Team after finding a security flaw“.  It isn’t clear if what is the full explanation of this, but the closure may be related to recent message on a topic on the forum we mentioned before where a plugin was being installed by hackers on websites. It isn’t clear whether there was actually a connection between the security of this plugin and that situation, as the messages states:

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