One way we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for customers of our service, but for everyone using them, is our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through that, we caught a variant of those vulnerabilities, an authenticated option update vulnerability, being fixed in the plugin Page View Count.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Page View Count 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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