The plugin WP Security Audit Log was closed on the WordPress Plugin Directory yesterday. That is one of the 1,000 most popular plugins with 100,000+ installs, so we were alerted to its closure. When we went to check on the plugin to see if we should be warning users of the plugin that also use our service of anything, we found that it had been updated and the changelog was this:

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WP Security Audit Log 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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