Recently, in looking into what might explain how plugins end up with serious vulnerabilities that hackers would be likely to exploit, what we have been seeing is that developers of those plugins are making numerous coding errors and clearly not testing their code. That was the case of the code that got flagged in Zielke Specialized Catalog by our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Zielke Specialized Catalog 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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