In a nasty reminder of why it is a good idea for plugin developers to pair to only the files they need from third party libraries, our proactive monitoring of changes being made to WordPress plugins to try to catch serious vulnerabilities when they are introduced in to plugins spotted a possible security issue in code being removed from the plugin Woocommerce Pay.nl Payment Methods and what we found was that for 22 months the plugin had several serious security issues due to a test file from the library PHP Curl Class. One of those being the ability to delete arbitrary files on the website. We are in the process of contacting the developer of the library about this.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Woocommerce Pay.nl Payment Methods 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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