18 Dec 2018

Vulnerability Details: Privilege Escalation in Under Construction 

One of the changelog entries for the latest version of plugin Under Construction is “minor security fixes in admin”. Looking at the changes made in that version we recognized the vulnerability being fixed since three weeks ago we disclosed that another one of the plugins by the same developer had that 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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