The changelog for the latest version of Easy Pixels by JEVNET is “Security issues”. Looking at the changes made in that version we saw what looked to be sanitization added to code that handles saving the changes to settings, which could be a vulnerability depending on how the changing of settings is secured. What we found is that in some cases there was and still isn’t security when doing that and that the sanitization is still lacking, so there is still a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the plugin. We have notified the developer of that.

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