Earlier in the week we were alerted to a topic on the WordPress Support Forum for the plugin Ad Inserter indicating that something was amiss the plugin or the pro version of the plugin. While the topic was titled “Possibly security issue“, much of the early discussion didn’t sound like it described a security issue with the plugin, but some other problem. Also, many of those posting were mentioning the were hosted with Kinsta, possibly pointing to some incompatibility with web host or a problem with the web host.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Ad Inserter Pro 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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