Our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities sometimes catches vulnerabilities in older versions of plugins if changes made related to those happen, as was the case with the plugin File Manager. Recently a tag for an older version of the plugin was removed and that got flagged as possibly containing a local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability, further checking showed that it could be exploited through cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin File Manager 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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