If there was ever an interest on the WordPress side of things to actual improve the security of plugins one obvious area for that would be a mechanism for developers to report if security vulnerabilities have been fixed in the plugins, so that additional reviewing of them could be done. The latest version of the plugin Category Specific RSS Menu (Category Specific RSS feed Subscription) would seems like a good example of where that could further improve the security of the plugin, as it turns out the new version fixes a security issue but while only addressing half of the security issues that caused the vulnerability.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Category Specific RSS feed Subscription 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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