The plugin WP SVG Icons was closed on the WordPress Plugin Directory on Saturday. Due to it being one of the 1,000 most popular, with 50,000+ installs, we were alerted to the closure. By the time we went to check to see if there were any security issues in the plugin a new version had already been submitted to fix a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows uploading arbitrary files. There are still a couple of very minor CSRF vulnerabilities that appear to still be unfixed and some other possible security issues.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WP SVG Icons 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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