Yesterday we full disclosed an authenticated open redirect vulnerability in the plugin Google Maps Widget, it turns out the developer has other plugins that shared the same issue as another of their plugins, Under Construction, was updated today and one of the changelog entries is “wp_redirect() vulnerability fix”. Looking the changes made to the plugin we found that several hours after version 3.25 was released it was modified to fix the same issue.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Under Construction 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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