The quality of reports on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are not always great and a report of a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the plugin PeepSo released today is a perfect example of that. The report claims that there is a vulnerability in version 1.11.2 of the plugin and doesn’t indicate whether it was fixed. That version hasn’t been the latest version of the plugin for over a month, so did that mean that it was fixed or did the discloser not bother checking if more recent version were impacted? Making that more difficult to decipher the discloser provided no details beyond a proof of concept.

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