The changelog for the latest version of Easy Digital Downloads has a couple of entries that suggest that security changes have been made to the plugin. In looking over the changes that were made, we found an undisclosed minor vulnerability fix happening. As the relevant code was being moved and reformatted, it seems possible that this wasn’t addressed as a vulnerability fix, so it wasn’t mentioned in the changelog. Or it was being hidden (that happens, unfortunately). The vulnerability involved cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and we found an additional instance of it in similar code that still exists in the plugin. We have notified the developer of that and offered to help them fix it.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Easy Digital Downloads 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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