The changelog for the latest version of Easy Digital Downloads is “Security Fix: Prevent an authentication bypass to the EDD REST API when no API keys exist.” That sounded like a vulnerability recently fixed in another plugin and as it turned that is because they shared the same code. Looking at the changes made in that version confirmed that the issue was due to what Wordfence had found to be at issue with the plugin Give (GiveWP) recently, which is that you could access the API without needed to have a valid API key as intended. In Easy Digital Downloads that “provides easy access to sales and product information in either jSON or XML format”.

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