In tomorrow’s Not Really a WordPress Plugin Vulnerability post we will be mentioning a number of false reports of vulnerabilities from someone going as “KingSkrupellos from Cyberizm Digital Security”, who doesn’t seem to really understand what they are writing about, but in the case of their claim of a “database backup disclosure vulnerability” in User Spam Remover, they did identify a security issue, though not quite the one they are claiming. While they claim a file generated by the plugin at /wp-content/plugins/user-spam-remover/log/userspamremover.restore.sql is a “database backup”, it actually is a log of any users removed from the plugin, which involves database entries. Since it is intended to contain spam accounts, the value of that information stored in in it would seem to be somewhat limited in most isntances. There is also an activity log by default stored at /wp-content/plugins/user-spam-remover/log/userspamremover.log

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