Yesterday a new release of the plugin Slimstat Analytics included a changelog entry “[Fix] Addressed a remote XSS vulnerability disclosed by Sucuri/GoDaddy.”, but Sucuri doesn’t seem to have disclosed any vulnerability, so it isn’t clear what that referred to. In the subversion entry logged “Addressed a remote XSS vulnerability disclosed by Sucuri/GoDaddy” no code was changed. When we did a quick check over the code that was actually changed yesterday we were confused as to how what looks like it was related to that could be a vulnerability, but upon more thorough check we realized code that it was different code that related to that and the change made doesn’t seem ideal to address the persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in question.

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