Yesterday, a new version of the WordPress plugin Enable Media Replace was released. The changelog for the new version was “Fix: A potential “Reflected Cross-Site Scripting” vulnerability has been patched, responsibly disclosed by the PatchStack team.” The developers claim that a “potential” vulnerability had been fixed turned out to not be true. As there was an actual vulnerability. We also found the code in the plugin still isn’t properly secured and we have notified the developer of that.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Enable Media Replace 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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