In a previous post today we mentioned a recent example of the moderators of WordPress Support Forum not understanding what the disclosure of a vulnerability is, but even when they correctly identify that they don’t seem to ever understand that continually deleting these disclosures instead of providing a better mechanism for reporting vulnerabilities isn’t working. That occurred just today with a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ultimate FAQ. One of the moderators left this message for someone disclosing that:

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