The changelog for the latest version of Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard is “Fix – Settings – Security – Checking for user capability and nonce. Sanitizing and escaping data.” When we went to look into that we found that the issue was more than what might have been expected as it turned out that previously you didn’t even need to be logged in to change the plugin’s settings and through one of those persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) was possible.

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