The changelog for the latest version of Apply Online 2.0 is “Reliability, performance, and security update, Upgrade immediately.”. Looking at the changes made we found that there was a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability fixed in the plugin.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Apply Online 2.0 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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