One area where WordPress plugins need to be very careful when it comes to security is handling file uploads. The plugin Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress hasn’t been doing that and it seems the developer doesn’t have the capability to handle that.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress 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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