The commit message for the latest change made to the WordPress plugin Image Hover Effects is “fixed Vulnerability issue”. As at least one of our customers is using the plugin, we checked over the change made. What we found is that it didn’t appear to fix a vulnerability, but there is a serious vulnerability connected with the code that was being changed.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Image Hover Effects 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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