Last Tuesday we discussed an authenticated option update vulnerability that had been fixed in the Freemius library, which is used in many WordPress plugins and that hackers had been targeting. At the same time that vulnerability had been fixed in the library another related vulnerability had also been fixed. The other vulnerability was an authenticated information disclosure vulnerability that would allow anyone logged in to WordPress to view the value of arbitrary WordPress options (settings).

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