One of the many unfortunate elements of the security industry is to greatly exaggerate security issues and leave people without a good understanding of security issues, which likely help the poor state of security to continue. A security bypass issue in the plugin Currency Switcher for WooCommerce seems like a good example of that as the information is headlined “Critical vulnerability in Currency Switcher for WooCommerce” and text isn’t much better:

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Currency Switcher for WooCommerce. 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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