Not Really a WordPress Plugin Vulnerability, Week of November 12
In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins to provide our customers with the best data on vulnerabilities in plugins they use, we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports, we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular, are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to the level of getting their own post, we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.
Arbitrary File Deletion in Backup and Restore For WP
With a claimed arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Backup and Restore For WP, no report is provided, only a HTTP request and the response to it. That information made it look like this isn’t a vulnerability and looking at the underlying code confirms it. [Read more]