Continuing a trend of WordPress plugin developers claiming that real vulnerabilities are potential or possible vulnerabilities, two recent updates to the plugin Crisp, which had as their Subversion comments “Fix potential XSS issue”, involved fixing a vulnerability. That vulnerability being a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

...

---

This post provides insights on a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin 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.

If you were using our service, you would have already been warned about this vulnerability if your website is vulnerable due to it. You can try out our service for free and then see the rest of the details of the vulnerability.

For existing customers, please log in to your account to view the contents of the post.